decrypting many files to stdout

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 28 June 2007 10:24, Ken Takusagawa wrote:
> I have many files that are all encrypted with the same public key,
> and the private key is protected with a passphrase.  Is there a way
> that I can decrypt all of them at once, concatenate the results and
> print it all to standard output but only have to type my passphrase
> once?  I'd like to avoid having the decrypted files be written to
> disk, i.e., I'd like "-d" behavior but with multiple files.

I suggest using gpg-agent for caching the passphrase. Then you only have 
to enter it once as long as gpg-agent is running and the cache-ttl is 
not expired. Use the following command line for starting gpg-agent (you 
probably want to use a shorter ttl than 3600 seconds aka 1 hour).

eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon --default-cache-ttl 3600)"

Then decrypt all files with a simple for-loop. Afterwards you might want 
to kill gpg-agent.


Regards,
Ingo
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