I need to PGP encrypt a parameter from the querystring. The command to run on my system is: 
/usr/bin/gpg -ea --always-trust -r user\@domain.com

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, but the answer (if anyone has one!) should be the same for any command.

I want to set the output of this command to another variable, like this: 
$encStr = `echo $plainStr | /usr/bin/gpg -ea --always-trust -r ken\@ra
+ndys.com`;

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This works great from the command line, but when I run it via the web, I get nothing. Any ideas? The entire thing is below... 
#!/usr/bin/perl
        use CGI("param");
        print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
        print "<html>\n<body>\n";
        $plainStr = param("plainStr");

$encStr = `echo $plainStr | /usr/bin/gpg -ea --always-trust -r user\@d
+omain.com`;

print "Encrypted String = $encStr";

print "\n</body>\n</html>";

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THANKS!!!

In reply to Get output from an external program by jholtzman

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