How to pass the passphrase for encryption?

[bumi]

I have some keys that require a passphrase to be set.
What is the correct way to pass the passphrase for encryption? I saw some solutions to pipe it to and the passphrase-fd to STDIN or setting the passphrase globally for the gpg-agent.

piping the passphrase seems to not work as we already pipe in the data to encrypt and also have the gpg command hard coded.

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I am opening this issue as I would add the information to the readme or some documentation - assuming more people have the same questions.

[freewil]

It's been a while since I've actively done this, but yeah in the past I've used the --passphrase-fd option.

The link above shows using passphrase via 0 (stdin). You probably want to use a file descriptor > 2, here is an example that should get you going in the right direction.

[freewil]

Re-open to add to README/docs