GPG Passphrase on the command line

[Tracy D. Bossong]

You didn't specify your platform, but in Windows it's
done like this:

echo mypasshrase|gpg --encrypt --passphrase-fd 0.....

--- "Low, Claudia" <claudia_low at stercomm.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   Is there an option, eg. --passphrase, that I can
> use so that I can
> pass the passphrase in the command line when doing a
> signing, symmetric
> encryption or decryption? Without this option, I
> will be prompted on the
> console.
>   In my program, I can only use command line to
> execute the commands. I
> am not able to pass in the passphrase from a file
> (using file
> descriptor).
>  
>   Please kindly help.
> 
>   Thanks,
>     Claudia
> 
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