[PLUG] Command to encrypt files

Michael Rasmussen michael at jamhome.us
Sun Aug 17 18:41:11 UTC 2014


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:48:13AM -0700, Jon Drews wrote:
>  New member here. I would like to know if there is a command to encrypt
> files? I thought it was "crypt" but I see that is in section 3 of the man
> pages, meaning it's a programming function.
 
Another option is to store the file(s) is a zip archive. If they are already in
a compressed format you can skip attempts to compress with the -0 option.

  zip -0 -e <FILESPEC>


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