On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Werner Koch <w...@gnupg.org> wrote: > > There are two simple things you need to remember when using gpg in a > script: > > 1. --batch to avoid all interaction. > > 2. --with-colons to get a well defined output format. That format is > not good for humans, though. > > Well we could have done switching the output format automagically but > that would be rather surprising. If it is used by a script, adding two > extra options for the invocation is not really a bug task. >
I don't think that automagic would be a good thing. I still think that the colons format is a bit difficult to process and not so suitable. But most importantly, I think that these two options are not enough, it is not as easy as that. For example there is also --passphrase-fd, --command-fd, --logging-fd etc. and sometimes I still don't manage to control properly all the input and output, or I have to do spectacular things that complicate things a lot. I think that it doesn't have to be that difficult.
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