appending to gpg file?

[David Shaw]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:46:30AM -0500, David Kennedy wrote:
> hello..
> 
> I am trying to append new data to a gpg log file id like to keep running.
> 
> Lets say i run
> 
> echo "line1" | gpg -z 0 -r test at test.com -e > testfile
> 
> is there a way to append to testfile and reparse/unencrypt later?
> 
> Concatenating to the file doesnt help:
> 
> echo "line2" | gpg -z 0 -r test at test.com -e >> testfile
> 
> Is there a clean way to go about this from the command line?  Another
> packaging option (hopefully something with minimal overhead)?

Not really.  You can do this as a running append (i.e. keep a file
descriptor open to your gpg process and keep pushing data at it),
which would create one large file.  You can't do it with '>>' as that
creates multiple OpenPGP messages in a single file, which is not
required to be supported by an OpenPGP client.

David