Re: using a pipe

Sounds like what you are trying to do is take the file contents, returned from the cat bash command, pipe it to gpg to create an un-encrypted password in a new file. At least, that's what the *nix syntax looks like.

If this is the case, I believe you can do this pretty simply by reading in the file using a standard open() and pipe it to gpg similarly to how you are doing it through your command line.

So...

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

# First, open the file and read the contents... assuming one line
open my $file, 'encrypted_file_name' or die "ERROR:\t$!\n";
my $enc_pass = shift( @{ [ <$file> ] } );
close $file;

# Next, pipe the contents to gpg
open my $gpg_command, "/usr/bin/gpg --option newfile oldfile | "
my $gpg_out;
while ( <$gpg_command> ) {
  $gpg_out .= $_;
}
close $gpg_command;

print "$gpg_out\n";

exit;
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Given the syntax of your command line interface to gpg, this should do the exact same thing, though via perl.

NOTE: I didn't test this being that I don't know what you are really trying to do here. This is really more of an idea seed that will start pointing you in the right direction!

Good luck!!

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Re^2: using a pipe by drock (Beadle) on Dec 30, 2005 at 03:25 UTC
not exactly... what I am doing is cating a file that has the clear text passphrase in it then piping this output as inout to the gpg binary for decryption like so: `cat file \|gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt --output oldfile newfile` [download] I do not understand what `my $enc_pass = shift( @{ [ <$file> ] } );` [download] is doing? Is this the same as: `for (;<FH>;) { print $_; }` [download] what does $gpg_out have in it?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: using a pipe by wazzuteke (Hermit) on Dec 30, 2005 at 15:28 UTC
Sorry for the confusion: `my $enc_pass = shift ( @{ [ <$file> ] } );` [download] Will simply take the first line within the file, whose handle is stored in the `$file` variable, treat the handle like a listed de-referenced array-ref and shift that first line into the `$enc_pass` variable. For example, if your file contains: `ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD` [download] when you: `print $enc_pass;` [download] you will get the output: `ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD` [download] For `$gpg_out`, that is the handle to the command line `gpg` call. Another method of this would be to use backticks such as: my $gpg_output = `gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt --output oldfile new +file`; [download] Simply enough, the backticks will automagically run the command specified, giving the output back to the `$gpg_output` variable. Hope this all clarifies! ---hA\|\|ta---- `print map{$_.' '}grep{/\w+/}@{[reverse(qw{Perl Code})]} or die while ( 'trying' );`	[reply] [d/l] [select]