Re: -x option encryption

This isn't what you asked, of course, but it seems problematic to me to have the password become part of your command-line history in plain text. Defeats one of the protections provided by the encryption.

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Salman

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 10:24 Stevew <stevwolf58@gmail.com> wrote:

is the  a way to automatically put the password in the startup command. 

E.G.

vi -x mypassword mynicefile.txt

This of course does not work. But is the a way to do something like this?

thanks.

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