GPG shell help with stdin | Bitcointalksearch.org

scintill

sr. member

Activity: 448

Merit: 254

Quote from: salty on September 08, 2012, 04:21:17 PM

nicely done

thanks. Do you know if the 'ctrl-d' is a standard unix end of file signal or specific to gpg?

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!

salty

full member

Activity: 562

Merit: 100

Quote from: gweedo on September 08, 2012, 04:23:05 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 Wink

gweedo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1000

I use usually do

Code:

echo "SIGN THIS" | gpg -a -s

salty

full member

Activity: 562

Merit: 100

nicely done

thanks. Do you know if the 'ctrl-d' is a standard unix end of file signal or specific to gpg?

scintill

sr. member

Activity: 448

Merit: 254

Try ctrl-D after you paste, that signals "end of file" when reading from stdin. GPG should then output the decrypted content.

salty

full member

Activity: 562

Merit: 100

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

Huh

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

Topic: GPG shell help with stdin (Read 1377 times)