gnupg to encrypt files in a batch processes

[Florian Weimer]

Jonas Bofjall <jonas@gazonk.org> writes:

> On 20 Mar 2002, Helmut Waitzmann wrote:
>  > put the PASSPHRASE into a file, for example
>  > /usr/local/BatchMail/passphrase, and then use the command
>  > gpg -s -e -o - --batch --yes --passphrase-fd 0 -r
>
> If you wish to avoid the file, I would suggest something along:
>
> $ cat << EOF | gpg --passphrase-fd-0 [...]
> ThisIsTheSecretPassphrase
> EOF
>
> this way, the pipe would probably(?) never make it to disk.

I'm sorry, but bash use temporary files to implement here documents
(like any other shell, I think).

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