dearmor(1)

✨ NAME ✨

dearmor — converts ASCII to binary 💅

so this is dearmor(1), bestie, from the Sequoia Manual 🎀 she takes your cute lil' ASCII-armored OpenPGP stuff and turns it back into raw binary. that's the whole job. she's an icon, she's a legend, she does one thing and she does it flawlessly ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dearmor [-o|--output] [-h|--help] [FILE]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Converts ASCII to binary 🔥

okay so context, because iykyk: to make encrypted data easier to handle and transport, OpenPGP data can be transformed to an ASCII representation called ASCII Armor. sq transparently handles armored data, but this subcommand can be used to explicitly convert existing ASCII-encoded OpenPGP data to its binary representation 🫶

so like — sq will just Deal With It on its own, no drama. but if you wanna be explicit about it, if you wanna say it with your chest, that's what dearmor is for 💅

the converse operation is sq armor — she does the opposite, putting the armor back on. they're literally a matched set, main character duo energy 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -o, --output=FILE — writes to FILE, or to stdout if you omit it 📝
• -h, --help — print help information 🙋
• [FILE] — reads from FILE, or from stdin if you omit it 📥

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

convert a ASCII certificate to binary 🎀

sq dearmor ascii-juliet.pgp

convert a ASCII message to binary 💌

sq dearmor ascii-message.pgp

look at her go. not a single note. periodt 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

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

the whole squad, no cap 👑:

sq(1) sq-armor(1) sq-autocrypt(1) sq-certify(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)

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🫶 this was sq 0.26.0, dated July 2022, and that's the dearmor(1) page — ily, go dearmor something 💖✨🎀