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Title: GPG shell help with stdin Post by: salty on September 08, 2012, 09:00:47 PM Can anyone explain to me how to GPG decrypt my clipboard buffer instead of a file?
Here's what I've tried and it doesn't work.. type 'gpg' or 'gpg -d' in a shell paste a pgp message (apple-V) into the shell ??? nothing happens until I ctrl-c to close gpg down. I guess I don't know what to do while gpg is running, and all the help files i can find seem to relate to operations on files Title: Re: GPG shell help with stdin Post by: scintill on September 08, 2012, 09:06:35 PM Try ctrl-D after you paste, that signals "end of file" when reading from stdin. GPG should then output the decrypted content.
Title: Re: GPG shell help with stdin Post by: salty on September 08, 2012, 09:21:17 PM nicely done :) thanks. Do you know if the 'ctrl-d' is a standard unix end of file signal or specific to gpg?
Title: Re: GPG shell help with stdin Post by: gweedo on September 08, 2012, 09:23:05 PM I use usually do
Code: echo "SIGN THIS" | gpg -a -s Title: Re: GPG shell help with stdin Post by: salty on September 08, 2012, 09:29:12 PM I use usually do Code: echo "SIGN THIS" | gpg -a -s Cheers for the info, I got where I wanted with 'ctrl-d' though, pipes (is | a pipe?) are going to be for another day I think ;) Title: Re: GPG shell help with stdin Post by: scintill on September 08, 2012, 09:36:21 PM nicely done :) thanks. Do you know if the 'ctrl-d' is a standard unix end of file signal or specific to gpg? Standard Unix when reading from stdin. Good question, forgot to mention that. You might have to Ctrl-D a second time to fully terminate the reading -- the first one will just let the program read what you've typed so far, if it hasn't read it yet. Anyway, glad it helped! |