Password on command line?

[Daniel Carrera]

echo "my secret passphrase" | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 ...


On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I work occationally on some text files ciphered symmetrically, which
> involves the following steps:
> 	gpg -decrypt <file> > <file>.txt	# get clear text
> 	pico <file>.txt				# edit it
> 	gpg -co <file> <file>.txt		# cipher symmetric.
> 	wipe <file>.txt				# erase clear text
> So I wrote a script for that, but I have to type in 3 times the same
> passphrase: for deciphering, ciphering and confirmation.
>
> Passing the passphrase as command line parameter would solve the problem,
> because the script could read it and pass it to gpg, but according to the
> man pages such a gpg option doesn't exist. The option --passphrase-fd gave
> me some hope first, because I thought I could write the passphrase in a
> file first and wipe it out at the end, but my linux book only told me
> about the standard file descriptors 0, 1 and 2, which don't help me.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
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