New GnuPG command line option.

[Frank Tobin]

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Werner Koch, at 11:01 +0200 on Sat, 21 Apr 2001, wrote:

    > Is the "alias" option still on the schedule to be implemented some
    > time, or off the charts?  Just curious whether it's been dismissed
    > altogether, or I can still hope for it. :)

    When I started to implement it, I noticed that it was somewhat more
    complicated than I tought - can't remember the exact reason.  So I
    tought it was not worth the time.

The tricky issue I came across while writing salias was deciding how users
should specify aliase in a config file in a meaningful manner, while also
handling things like "repeated-options", such as GnuPG's -r.

salias can do things like expanding:

  gpg -r friends --encrypt
to
  gpg -r 0xABCD1234 -r funckyperson@funk.com -r ABCD1234ASDF4545 --encrypt

Note salias is a general tool, not specific to GnuPG, and can be used with
any program.  For example, I use it to also alias:
    ssh-add all
to
    ssh-add /home/ftobin/.ssh/identity /home/ftobin/.ssh/id_dsa

- -- 
Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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