car(1)

✨ car(1) ✨

okay so bestie, we're doing the car page from GNU Telephony and honestly? it's giving cryptography meets group project. let's get into it 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

car — the crytographic archiver. yes bestie, a crytographic one, that's literally how it's spelled here, we don't make the rules 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

car [options] [paths...]
car --decode [.carfile]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does car actually do? It creates and decodes portable cross-platform crytographic archives. That's the whole vibe ✨

An archive can be either:

• a collection of files, or
• an in-stream message that's being piped 👑

And the output? You can send it to a binary .car file, or as ascified text. iykyk.

It uses a symmetric cipher, and your passhrase gets hashed to form a key. so like, the key is derived, not stored, periodt 🔐

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• --cipher=name — Pick your symmetric cipher bestie. By default it's 256 bit aes. the default ate, honestly 💅
• --decrypt — Say the word and we're decrypting an existing car stream or file. No file given? Then stdin is used. classic 🫶
• --digest=name — Choose the name of the digest algorithm. By default sha is used. simple, iconic ⭐
• --follow — Dereference and follow symlinks. Otherwise? They're literally ignored 🙈
• --output=filename — Name the output file for a new archive. By default it goes to stdout. no cap 🌈
• --overwrite — Always overwrite existing files, no prompting, no questions, we move fast 💀
• --quiet — Non-interactive AND no status output. the silent main character energy 😌
• --recursive — If your argument is a directory, it recursively scans that directory and any subdirectory contents as arguments. go deep bestie 🧚
• --help — Outputs help screen for the user. when in doubt, ask for help, it's giving self-care 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

car was written by David Sugar <dyfet@gnutelephony.org>. we love a legend 🎀

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🍓 REPORTING BUGS 🍓

Found a bug? Report it to bug-commoncpp@gnu.org or bugs@gnutelephony.org. they wanna hear from you, fr fr 💜

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 2010-2014 David Sugar, Tycho Softworks.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. like, zero, none, nada 😭

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so that's the whole page babes ✨ this cutie came from GNU uCommon, dated January 2010, and it lives at car(1). go archive something iconic 🦋💅