Subj : gpg | base64 to text file, how?
To   : Aug
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Fri Sep 19 2025 21:38:36

Hej Aug!

> i dropped to a sh ($) shell in busybox, and that worked!

Ah!  I am assuming your version of busybox is using the ash shell.  The last time I used/built busybox I turned off all the builtin shells and made bash the shell of choice.  I think in your case/usage ash should be good enough.

I don't use gpg so I am totally green to whatever it is you're attempting to do.  For the record;

<Esc>:read !gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.4.8
libgcrypt 1.11.2
Copyright (C) 2025 g10 Code GmbH
License GNU GPL-3.0-or-later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: /home/somedork/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
        CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

What?!?!  No xz compression?  That is sad.  Oh well, I can live without it but if it did matter I'd go with zlib given the choices.  I most definetly would/will stay away from zip.  What a ripoff that has been since day one.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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