Encrypt a whole directory in a single pass

Anthony E. Greene agreene@pobox.com
Mon Apr 15 14:37:01 2002


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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:20:47PM +0200, Edmund Lindmayer wrote:
>I want to encrypt a all files in a directory with gpg --symmetric in a
>single pass.  Is this possible, and how to do it?

On Windows, you will probably have to zip the directory first. On Linux, I
recommend tar instead, because it keeps the permissions and ownership.

Tony
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