Using age in a script to automatically en-/decrypt files in a batch process.
What happened
I can encrypt an empty file, but decryption does not re-create the input.
$ age-keygen -o key.txt
$ echo -n "" | age -r age1xe9fdxsrj6025yxl2yzlpalpmn2yypt3a7ysk4c2hpncq2nt9als8wh7hg > data.age
$ age --decrypt -i key.txt -o empty-file data.age
$ cat empty-file
cat: empty-file: No such file or directory
This is a problem in scripts, because i have to handle this case specifically. I appended a && touch empty-file as a work around. Still, the behavior was very unexpected.
FiloSottile
commented
5 months ago
Environment
Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.76-1 (2024-02-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux)What were you trying to do
Using age in a script to automatically en-/decrypt files in a batch process.
What happened
I can encrypt an empty file, but decryption does not re-create the input.
This is a problem in scripts, because i have to handle this case specifically. I appended a
&& touch empty-fileas a work around. Still, the behavior was very unexpected.