command line complexity

Posted Jan 22, 2026 11:52 UTC (Thu) by dd9jn (✭ supporter ✭, #4459)
In reply to: command line complexity by ballombe
Parent article: Responses to gpg.fail

Available since 2.1.14, released summer 2016 which should even be available in Debian for some years:

   gpg -e -a --batch  -o "$POPCONGPG" -f "$FILEWITHKEY"  "$POPCON"

I would of use this in a pipeline without -o when sending, though.

command line complexity

Posted Jan 22, 2026 20:12 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks, this is useful!

(gnupg (v1) support was added to Debian in summer 2013).

The full name of the -f option is --recipient-file which is not make this option easy to find, since there is no recipients involved.

command line complexity

Posted Jan 24, 2026 19:13 UTC (Sat) by smcv (subscriber, #53363) [Link]

The option name does make sense if you think of gpg as a system for encrypting and authenticating messages (emails, or messages being submitted via http, or similar). In Debian's popcon, the recipient of the message (which therefore needs to be able to decrypt it) is the popcon server rather than a person, but it's still true that it's the recipient if you think of it that way.