why is an existing file not overwritten by output-file?

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On 05-Jun-2002/13:32 +0200, akorthaus@web.de wrote:
>Is there another possibility instead of:
>
>rm output.gpg | mysqldump database | gpg -o
>output.gpg -e --default-recipient andreas
>
>But that doesn=B4t work, the file is removed, but nothing else happens. =
And
>what happens, if 'output.gpg' does not exist?
>Overwriting would be the best idea, but how?

Assuming the mysqldump command produces output on STDOUT, and you have
specified a default recipient in your ~/.gnupg/options file, this should
encrypt the database dump to your public key and overwrite the exising
output.gpg file:

  mysqldump database | gpg -e > output.gpg


Tony
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