SQ(1)

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version 1.5.0 · 4 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

💅 SQ(1) — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, buckle up, we're reading the sq-packet-dearmor page together and honestly? it's giving "small command, big main character energy" 💖 This one lives in the User Commands section of the manual, so yeah, it's a real one.

🌸 NAME 🌸

sq-packet-dearmor — Convert ASCII to binary 🦋

like, that's the whole job. ascii in, binary out. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sq packet dearmor [OPTIONS] FILE

that's it. that's the vibe check. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Convert ASCII to binary. simple as that, bestie 💖

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 transparently handles armored data — like it just knows, iconic — but this subcommand exists so you can explicitly convert existing ASCII-encoded OpenPGP data to its binary representation. no guessing, no hoping, just conversion ✨

and if you ever need to go the other way? the converse operation is sq packet armor 🫶 (go read that page too, it's the sibling, the duo, the iconic pair).

👑 OPTIONS 👑

🍓 Subcommand options

  • --output=FILE — write to FILE, or just slide it to stdout if you leave it out 💫 default is literally -
  • FILE — read from FILE, or from stdin if FILE is - 🌈 default is, you guessed it, -
ngl both of these defaulting to - is so clean. stdin in, stdout out, the classic glow-up ✨

🦋 Global options

See sq(1) for a description of the global options. (yes, the big one — sq(1) is the parent, the mother, the main character 😌)

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

Convert an ASCII armored OpenPGP message to a binary OpenPGP message. it's giving alchemy but make it cryptography 💅

sq packet dearmor --output=message.bin message.pgp

look at her go. ate that fr fr 🔥

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

For the full documentation see <https://book.sequoia-pgp.org/>. ☁️

⭐ VERSION ⭐

1.5.0

and that's the whole page bestie 💖 this was brought to you by the fine folks at Sequoia PGP, version 1.5.0, wrapped up in all its SQ(1) glory — go convert something, you got this 👑💅✨

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