empty file generated when running GPG batch

Jerome Baum jerome at jeromebaum.com
Fri Mar 25 11:57:26 CET 2011


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jb1111 <johnathan.barbett at elephant.com> writes:

> Hi.  It outputs a same named .pgp file.  When decrypted, it's empty.  I tried
> removing the echo before, "Password" and that breaks the process.  Sorry, I
> haven't done batch in years and gpg is a new thing for me.  Result:
>
> C:\outgoingdropfolder>FOR /F "delims=" %F IN ('MORE <
> "C:\Users\myprofile\AppData\Local\Temp\~encryptlist.txt"') DO (
> IF EXIST %F (
> Echo Password  | GPG --batch --encrypt --passphrase-fd 0 -r 131FDA81 -o
> "C:\encryptedfiles\%F.pgp"
> IF ERRORLEVEL 0 DEL "%F"
> )
> )
> C:\outgoingdropfolder>(
>  IF EXIST test345.txt (
>  Echo Password  | GPG --batch --encrypt --passphrase-fd 0 -r Publickeyuid -o
> "C:\encryptedfiles\test345.txt.pgp"
>  IF ERRORLEVEL 0 DEL "test345.txt"

Can you try removing both the echo and the "passphrase-fd 0" argument?
Sorry for not mentioning that. Here's what my command looks like:

gpg --batch --encrypt -r jerome -o temp.gpg crontab.txt

Can you try running just a single command like that one and get that to
work first, before you do it in a batch file?

- -- 
PGP: A0E4 B2D4 94E6 20EE 85BA E45B 63E4 2BD8 C58C 753A
PGP: 2C23 EBFF DF1A 840D 2351 F5F5 F25B A03F 2152 36DA
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