Question

I have a directory and in it has several files. I’m trying to decrypt those files and move them to another directory. I can’t figure out how to set the output filename and move it.

So, the directory structure looks like the following:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/decryptandmove.sh
/Applications/MAMP/bin/passtext.txt
/Applications/MAMP/bin/encrypted/test1.txt.pgp
/Applications/MAMP/bin/encrypted/test2.txt.pgp
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/www/decrypted/

For all the files that are found in the encrypted directory, I’m trying to decrypt them and then move them to the directory www/decrypted/. I don’t know what the filenames in the encrypted directory will be ahead of time (this script will eventually run via cron job), so I wanted to just output the decrypted files with the same filenames, but without the pgp. So, the result would be:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/decryptandmove.sh
/Applications/MAMP/bin/passtext.txt
/Applications/MAMP/bin/encrypted/
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/decrypted/test1.txt.pgp
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/decrypted/test2.txt.pgp

So, this is all I have written so far and it doesn’t work. FILE and FILENAME are both wrong. I haven’t even gotten to the moving part.

pass_phrase=`cat passtext.txt|awk '{print $1}'`

for FILE in '/Applications/MAMP/bin/encrypted/';
 do
    FILENAME=$(basename $FILE .pgp) 
    gpg --passphrase $pass_phrase --output $FILENAME --decrypt $FILE
 done

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash
p=$(<passtext.txt)
set -- $p
pass_phrase=$1
destination="/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/www/decrypted/"
cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/encrypted
for FILE in *.pgp;
do
    FILENAME=${FILE%.pgp}
    gpg --passphrase "$pass_phrase" --output "$destination/$FILENAME" --decrypt "$FILE"
done