Hello,
I'm trying to encrypt the file using PGP and after encrypting the command is creating a new file with name OriginalFilename.asc as we wanted the Ascii armour. This is more of a PGP question thru perl but still wanted to try here as some experts might know it :)

Perl Version - 5.10.1 on Solaris
PGP - PGP commandline version for Solaris 6.5.8 
 my $file = '/opt/SampleData.txt';
$encrytion = `pgp -ea +batchmode $file publickey.pgp`;

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The above encryption command produces new encrypted file with name 'SampleData.txt.asc' leaving the original file 'SampleData.txt' untouched in the same location.

Is there a way that I can modify the above PGP command so that after encryption the original file will be removed automatically leaving only the encrypted file on server rather than issuing a separate delete command?

Thanks for your help.

In reply to OT: PGP encryption command to use in Perl by newperlmonkey

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