recursive gpg

Patrick Brunschwig patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org
Fri Aug 8 17:17:10 CEST 2008


David SMITH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:54:13AM -0600, Eliot, Christopher wrote:
>> gpg <arguments> `find . -type f`
>> will get you pretty close.
> 
> Close, but if you've got lots of files, you'll hit the maximum command
> line length limit.

You have these two options:

a) find . -type f -excec gpg <arguments> {} \;
    "{}" stands for the found filename

b) find . -type f | xargs gpg <arguments>

HTH
-Patrick



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