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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

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I do not understand what 
my $enc_pass = shift( @{ [ <$file> ] } );

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is doing? Is this the same as: 
for (;<FH>;) {
  print $_;
}

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what does $gpg_out have in it?

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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> ] } );

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    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

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    when you: 
    print $enc_pass;

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    you will get the output: 
    ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD

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    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`;

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    Simply enough, the backticks will automagically run the command specified, giving the output back to the $gpg_output variable.

    Hope this all clarifies!

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