Flag to pass the passphrase dynamically while decrypting...

[Francis Litterio]

"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com> writes:

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

>> Does anyone know how I can go about decrypting a file dynamically
>> without getting prompted for a passphrase?

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

Or, if you use a recent version of Bash as your shell:

	gpg --passphrase-fd 6 ... 6<<<"xoxoxoxoxoxoxo"

This is nice because it leaves standard input available for reading the
plaintext or ciphertext.
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Francis Litterio
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