Hello, I have spent considerable amount of time to make the PGP encryption work and thinking that I must be missing something. Here is the back ground.

Perl Version - Default version 5.8.4 on Solaris 10
PGP : PGP Command line freeware 6.5.8 installed on solairs

When I run the pgp encrytion command directly on the Solaris, its working like a charm and doing everything that I ask it to do, but the problem comes when I invoke thru a perl script. Its just creating a empty asc file but not writing anything to that file and cursor is just stuck there. 

$dataFile = '/opt/ExportedPGPKeys/SampleData.txt';
$isEncrypted = `pgp -ea +batchmode $dataFile @sys`;

print " The output value is $isEncrypted \n";

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If I run another command like  ls instead of the PGP command thru the perl script then its working.

Did anyone come across this situation or any pointers will be grateful.

Thanks
newbie

In reply to PGP encryption command not working thru Perl Backticks by newperlmonkey

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