Flag to pass the passphrase dynamically while decrypting...

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:38:23PM -0700, Loo, Peter wrote:

> Hi,

> Does anyone know how I can go about decrypting a file dynamically without getting prompted for a passphrase?  Under the licensed version of PGP, you are able to accomplish this by issuing a command like the following:

> pgp --decrypt --passphrase "xoxoxoxoxoxo" --output $file.txt $file.txt.pgp --overwrite

> I was unable to find the flag --passphrase in "gpg --help".

	echo "xoxoxoxoxoxo" | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 ...

> Thanks. 

> Peter Loo (Senior Programmer)
> peter.loo@bannerhealth.com <mailto:peter.loo@bannerhealth.com> 

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