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Old 09-23-2004
Using pgp in a shell script
This may be more of a PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) question than Unix, but here's hoping.

The statement I'm using to compress a file is:

/opt/pgp-6.5.8/pgp +force -feat MY_Pub_Key < file_in.txt > file_out.asc

The +force parameter is documented as "Eliminating confirmation questions", but I think it only works for some commands, and this still pops up:

Are you sure you want to use this public key (y/N)?

Has anyone found a way to use pgp in a shell and suppress the confirmation?
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Old 09-24-2004
Update:

Chaged the command to:

/opt/pgp-6.5.8/pgp +force -feat Recipient_Pub_Key < file_in.txt > file_out.asc +force +batchmode

Still failed. (It looks like a bug in the +batchmode parameter.)

But...the reason the confirmation message was coming up was that the (recipient's public) key wasn't signed by me. Once I signed the key, the confirmation message wasn't produced and it ran OK.
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