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-pgpewrap is a program that is part of
the [Mutt] email client package. It is pretty badly documented, not having
a manpage or accepting "
--help"
or "
-h" arguments
. It has
a brief mention in the PGP-Notes.txt file in the mutt documentation:
+[
pgpewrap]
is a program included in
the [Mutt] email client package that has neither
a manpage nor __
--help__
or __
-h__ screens
. The only documentation is
a brief mention in the __
PGP-Notes.txt__
file in the mutt documentation:
-----
-''
This is a little C program which does some command line munging: The first argument is a command to be executed. When pgpewrap encounters a "
--"
(dash-dash) argument, it will interpret the next argument as a prefix which is put in front of all following arguments.''
+;:
This is a little C program which does some command line munging: The first argument is a command to be executed. When pgpewrap encounters a __
--__
(dash-dash) argument, it will interpret the next argument as a prefix which is put in front of all following arguments.
-''
Example:''
- ''
pgpewrap pgpe file -- -r a b c''
+;:
Example:
+
pgpewrap pgpe file -- -r a b c
+;: will execute:
+ pgpe file -r a -r b -r c
+;: This script is needed with PGP 5 and with GPG, since their command line interfaces can
't be properly served by mutt
's format mechanism.
-''will execute:''
- ''pgpe file -r a -r b -r c''
-
-''This script is needed with PGP 5 and with GPG, since their command line interfaces can't be properly served by mutt's format mechanism.''
-----
-
-The reason you might
need to use
this is
because [GPG] requires multiple recipients to be listed with a "
-r"
each, such as "-r key1 -r key2 -r key3"
while mutt outputs multiple recipients
as a list, such as "-r
key1 key2 key3"
. pgpewrap is used to change mutt's output before executing gpg
.
+You
need this for multiple recipients
because [GPG] needs __
-r__ to for
each of them
, while [Mutt] can only output them
as a single
list, such as __
key1 key2 key3__
. [
pgpewrap]
is used to fix the command line for [GPG] so that __-- -r key1 key2 key3__ becomes __-r key1 -r key2 -r key3__
.