Gpg, multiple files encryption

[dwind]

Hi, there!
Could you please tell me how to encrypt multiple files(e.g. every file in some folder) without compressing them into one archive?
It seems there is not such option is gpg…

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @dwind, and welcome!

I suggest you look into the find command.

man find

You could use it to find files where ever, according to criteria, and then use the -exec flag to run a command for each result.

So you could do something like this (in pseudocode):

find /in/some/directory -type file -name '*containing.something*' -exec `compress {}` \;

Hope you manage!

[xabbu]

GnuPG can’t encrypt multiple files. It can only encrypt one file. You can create an archive, for example a tar archive (which is not compressed) and encrypt it.
Or you encrypt every file in a folder, for example with a loop over every file. Either with a for loop in your shell or like @Mirdarthos examples with find.

[gandalf]

this is what your shell is for

[dwind]

@xabbu

Either with a for loop in your shell

@xabbu what is loop? I use KDE.

[xabbu]

It is a function in shells that can run a command multiple times, for example a “for loop” in bash over all files that end in .txt

for file in *.txt; do echo $file; done

Will echo the filename for every file that ends in .txt in the current folder.

You might want to search the internet for a more complete tutorial on loops in Shells.

[dwind]

Thank you very much! This also works perfectly.

[winnie]

Since you’re using KDE, why not use Plasma Vault? It sounds like it does exactly what you’re looking for.

The package is named: plasma-vault

[dwind]

Thank you for the hint. Never heard of it before. I’ll investigate the possibility of using it.