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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:

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''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''

''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.''
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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.

One page links to pgpewrap:

.muttrc

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