Hi Efraim, I had not realized that all the cool kids were doing Btrfs! 😎
On Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM CET, Efraim Flashner wrote: > The literal pipes hurt my brain, so as someone who (still) hasn't dived > deeply into Guile I have a different option I've come up with for mixing > Guile and external programs: > > ``` > (define (decrypt-password encrypted-string) > (program-file > "magic-password-file" > #~(begin > (use-modules (ice-9 popen) > (ice-9 rdelim)) > (display > (read-line (pipeline > '((#$(file-append (S "coreutils-minimal") "/bin/echo") > #$encrypted-string) > (#$(file-append (S "coreutils-minimal") > "/bin/base64") > "--decode") > (#$(file-append (S "gnupg") "/bin/gpg") > "--no-tty" > "--for-your-eyes-only" > "--quiet" > "--decrypt")))))))) > > (define %dbxfs-token > (decrypt-password %dbxfs-token-base64)) > ``` Thanks to you and to everyone who contributed snippets! For sure, I’ll have to go through this thread again and to set up everything properly! -- Tanguy
