syntax for encrypting only the string passed in an argument

[Brian Mearns]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Incomex <incomex at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to be able to call a shell from within a development environment
> and pass a string of data to it to be de/en/crypted.  The idea would look
> like
> this:
>
> read from file "data.txt" line z and put it into variableY
> variablex = call shell(gpg -e -r Joe variableY)
> print variablex
>
> rem:  variableY is the plaintext, variablex is the returned cyphertext
>
> you can email me directly at incomex at hotmail.com
> thanks
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Does you "development environment" allow you to feed things to stdin?
Because that's how gpg would normally expect to receive the text, if
an input file is not specified. I don't know whether or not there's a
way to specify the text directly in an argument (seems very unlikely,
most plaintext would be difficult to escape for use on a command
line). Depending on how the shell function commands, you might be able
to do it directly from there, e.g., `cat myfile | gpg -e -r joe`.

-Brian

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