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youwould

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Registered: 21 Nov 2007

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dencypting in linux

hello everyone iam currently scripting in linux and i was wondering if anyone could tell me what the command was for dencypting a text file???

Many thanks

Simon Sheppard

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Registered: 27 Aug 2005

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Re: dencypting in linux

This would obviously depend on what the file was encrypted with!

At a guess you are possibly looking for the crypt function - not all variants of linux have this installed/compiled

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl3_crypt.htm