vigpg(1)

💖 vigpg — bestie edition 💖

okay so real quick: this is the manpage for vigpg, and it lives in section 1 of the manual (the "hey bestie, type this in your terminal" section) and it ships with byobu. buckle up, it's a short one but it's a good one 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

vigpg — open and edit an encrypted file 🔐✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vigpg [FILE]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so vigpg is a little program that wraps your editor and gpg together so you can edit an encrypted file. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "middle management for your secrets" and honestly? iconic 💅

like, it may be useful, for instance, to edit your password file 👑

no cap: the way it works is you point it at a file, and it handles the gpg-ness so you can just... edit. main character energy for your encrypted stuff.

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

here's literally the whole thing:

$ vigpg passwords.txt.gpg

yes bestie, that's it. vigpg passwords.txt.gpg. slay 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• gpg(1)
• sensible-editor(1)

go read those too, they're the supporting cast and they ate 💜

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manpage and the utility itself were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others, so like, share the love 🫶).

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation. periodt ✨

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt 🌐

byobu · 25 Apr 2014 · that's the whole page bestie, love u, go encrypt something 💖🦋🎀✨