in reply to Re^3: Capture response from backticks to a file.
in thread Capture response from backticks to a file.

You are right, I am over complicating things, I can just use this instead and get it over with: 
system("gpg --trust-model always -er 12345678 my_file.txt  1>/dev/null
+");

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