[wellylug] encryption question

jumbophut jumbophut at gmail.com
Sun Aug 29 10:55:11 NZST 2004


On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:04:57 +1200, Mark Signal wrote:
> IFS=$'\n'
> # if the encryption key is there use it to encrypt all files
> if [ -f $KEY ]; then
>         for FILE in `find $DATADIR -type 'f' | grep -i -E
> "\.[dx][ol][cs]$"`;
>         do
>         ccrypt -eqfS .encrypted -k $KEY $FILE
>         done
> fi
> 
> this just encrypts .doc and .xls file at the moment
> 

To be specific, this would also encrypt any files with a .xoc, .xlc,
.xos, etc. extension.  That may not cause any problems, but if it
does, you could use:

grep -i -E '\.doc$|\.xls$' 

instead of your existing grep expression.  The infix operator (|) can
be used as many times as you like.

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')




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