armor(1)

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✨ armor(1) ✨ — Sequoia Manual

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're doing armor(1) today and honestly? it's giving glow-up 💅 this one lives in the Sequoia Manual and it's about to turn your ugly binary blobs into something cute enough to paste into an email.

🌸 NAME 🌸

armor — Converts binary to ASCII 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

armor [-o|--output] [--label] [-h|--help] [FILE]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Converts binary to ASCII. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly ✨

so here's the tea: to make encrypted data easier to handle and transport, OpenPGP data can be transformed to an ASCII representation called ASCII Armor. sq emits armored data by default, but this subcommand can be used to convert existing OpenPGP data to its ASCII-encoded representation. no cap.

the converse operation is sq dearmor. they're literally besties, one armors, one dearmors, iconic duo behavior fr fr 🫶

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • -o, --output=FILE — Writes to FILE or stdout if omitted. so if you're like "not me forgetting to redirect," just skip it and it'll spill onto stdout for you 💜
  • --label=LABEL — Selects the kind of armor header. [default: auto] [possible values: auto, message, cert, key, sig, file]. lowkey the ✨aesthetic✨ picker for your header.
  • -h, --help — Print help information. your safety net, bestie, no judgment 🌈
  • [FILE] — Reads from FILE or stdin if omitted. yes she can slurp straight from stdin, main character energy 😌

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Convert a binary certificate to ASCII:

sq armor binary-juliet.pgp

Convert a binary message to ASCII:

sq armor binary-message.pgp

look at her go. ate and left no crumbs 💀✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

For the full documentation see <https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sq/>.

sq(1) sq-autocrypt(1) sq-certify(1) sq-dearmor(1) sq-decrypt(1) sq-encrypt(1) sq-inspect(1) sq-key(1) sq-keyring(1) sq-keyserver(1) sq-packet(1) sq-revoke(1) sq-sign(1) sq-verify(1) sq-wkd(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 this was sq 0.26.0, dated July 2022 — yeah she's a lil vintage but she still slays 💖 go armor something and text me when you're done 🎀

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