On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:33:38 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>Alternately, you could feed your data directly on stdin from the >command >line with a pipe, like this: > > printf "just a test" | gpg --encrypt --armor -r $recipient Thanks! worked perfectly. $ printf "just a test" | gpg --encrypt --armor -r testkey gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) hQEMA3MYof8tow73AQf/S2AzTh6+dtXW7Gj555s2JdPT2tLyzn7C2yyIGOi/YyiA jvT5f2WKU4xBE4dZ9/R9vm5twbhz2wteKh6p4yVPbVcuYOj6cQoCS6OxzlHqe9cs NZBB/3rmhOxUAKFdSFw7PxKnRxySyTex+CEkSy6k+wkjOIv+xoU896FHVrr7U2aS LnHIkyuYmJAedgF/1u0behTwHbLPCcSHJ//GLrmyr/sr1uERmR3yhrbFBktqI7kD AmCSYFCG6jAtoYdS9flFW6v1DwWifQcXyHrIr6lT/yZZrcIvsy18pUDAxk0bwN8n Y0hh3CN7r+HeB/WwjhTwtcJZuh6/u4qaakcqeBlsL9JGAb7nQdGat0TZ8mjZEX3m WvTSV/Z0StTNmJu1m824pqAX7ECAghve/4Wn1mElprJcwLOH+onbh+vAp57s+r1q 0p/Lu5DD0A== =nDWv -----END PGP MESSAGE----- > >If you're not down with these patterns, i recommend getting >comfortable >with stdin and stdout. The time spent will be repaid immensely if >you >plan to work with UNIX-like systems in the future. I recommend >reading >up on the basics of the concept: > > http://www.linfo.org/standard_input.html > http://www.linfo.org/standard_output.html > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Standard_streams > >and maybe also searching around on the 'net for some tutorials. >Playing >with pipes and redirection in your favorite shell is probably the >best >way to really internalize the concept, of course. Thanks Again, vedaal _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
