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# 8  
Old 07-13-2009
Hi pludi,
Thanks for spoon feeding. (I am sorry to make you do that, I am very new to Unix n Linux)
But I am getting an error saying

gpg: Invalid option "--passphrase-file"
# 9  
Old 07-13-2009
Which version of gpg are you using? (It's the first line of output from gpg --version) As far as I know GPG2 (>= 2.0.0) should support this.

If your version really doesn't know about that option, try using --passphrase-fd instead, eg
Code:
echo "s3cr3t" | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 ....

# 10  
Old 07-13-2009
OP is probably using the portable standalone version, i.e. 1.4.X
# 11  
Old 07-14-2009
Hey friends,
I am using gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.6

and tried solution echo "s3cr3t" | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 .... test.txt

but getting error
Reading passphrase from file descriptor 0
usage: gpg [options] [filename]

What to do :-(
# 12  
Old 07-14-2009
The dots aren't part of the actual command line. I put them there as placeholders because I was too lazy to type the whole command line again, and hoped it would be obvious that the --passphrase-file option was the only one to change.
# 13  
Old 07-14-2009
Dear Pludi,
By now you must have come to knw how dumb I am when it comes to Unix/Linux.. Sp can you please spoon fid once again?

Please write an exact syntax to encrypt test.txt file with password 12345
# 14  
Old 07-14-2009
This should do it:
Code:
echo "12345" | gpg --batch --no-tty --armor --passphrase-fd 0 --symmetric test.txt
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