pea 0.2.0
Copyright (c) 2005 Sven-Thorsten Fahrbach
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This is a temporary website from which you can download pea (Perl Encryption Assistant) until my application to Sourceforge for hosting this script has been approved. I will not delete this site but it won't be updated anymore either. I will place a link here to the Sourceforge site as soon they accept my application. There currently are problems with an existing pea project, so I might have to wait until I either may take over the name of the existing project or I choose another name for the script (which I am reluctant to do).
The Perl Encryption Assistant is a command line tool meant to help encrypting large numbers of files in one go using gpg. pea accepts a number of useful options: specifying a source and destination directory, keeping a logfile, making backup copies and batch conversion of file names. On default pea processes all files in the current working directory and has them encrypted by gpg. It deletes the original, unencrypted files and moves the new, encrypted files to a subdirectory ./pea.The behaviour of the program can be fine tuned with the above mentioned options. The use of the program makes, of course, only sense on a system on which gpg is installed. Just as Perl itself, pea is portable and should thus work on all Unices.
pea uses the modules
- Getopt::Long
- Pod::Usage
- File::Copy
and
- Cwd
The only bug known to me at the moment is that the batch conversion of file names does not always work correctly, at least in cases where the user specifies a pattern. It does however in all cases return unambiguous, useful results.