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age --help
Usage:
age [--encrypt] (-r RECIPIENT | -R PATH)... [--armor] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
age [--encrypt] --passphrase [--armor] [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
age --decrypt [-i PATH]... [-o OUTPUT] [INPUT]
Options:
-e, --encrypt Encrypt the input to the output. Default if omitted.
-d, --decrypt Decrypt the input to the output.
-o, --output OUTPUT Write the result to the file at path OUTPUT.
-a, --armor Encrypt to a PEM encoded format.
-p, --passphrase Encrypt with a passphrase.
-r, --recipient RECIPIENT Encrypt to the specified RECIPIENT. Can be repeated.
-R, --recipients-file PATH Encrypt to recipients listed at PATH. Can be repeated.
-i, --identity PATH Use the identity file at PATH. Can be repeated.
INPUT defaults to standard input, and OUTPUT defaults to standard output.
If OUTPUT exists, it will be overwritten.
RECIPIENT can be an age public key generated by age-keygen ("age1...")
or an SSH public key ("ssh-ed25519 AAAA...", "ssh-rsa AAAA...").
Recipient files contain one or more recipients, one per line. Empty lines
and lines starting with "#" are ignored as comments. "-" may be used to
read recipients from standard input.
Identity files contain one or more secret keys ("AGE-SECRET-KEY-1..."),
one per line, or an SSH key. Empty lines and lines starting with "#" are
ignored as comments. Passphrase encrypted age files can be used as
identity files. Multiple key files can be provided, and any unused ones
will be ignored. "-" may be used to read identities from standard input.
When --encrypt is specified explicitly, -i can also be used to encrypt to an
identity file symmetrically, instead or in addition to normal recipients.
Example:
$ age-keygen -o key.txt
Public key: age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p
$ tar cvz ~/data | age -r age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p > data.tar.gz.age
$ age --decrypt -i key.txt -o data.tar.gz data.tar.gz.age
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