Usage of --symmetric

[Pete Stephenson]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Rahul R <rahul.raviz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to run
>
> "gpg --symmetric test.txt"
>
> But its asking for Passphrase. Is there any way to skip this while running
> this command?

No.

When you symmetrically encrypt something you need to specify the
passphrase that is used as a key to encrypt and decrypt that file.

-- 
Pete Stephenson