On 1/16/06, Alphax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm currently writing a set of gpg-specific completions for the fish > > shell (http://roo.no-ip.org/fish). These completions already feature > > all the switches for gpg, and a description of each switch, usually > > the first sentence of the manpage description. > > > > While doing this, I've run across an issue with scripting. Fish allows > > you to tab-complete sub-arguments to switches, so you can for instance > > write > > > > fish> gpg --verify-options=show-photos,show-us<TAB> > > > > and the line will complete to > > > > fish> gpg --verify-options=show-photos,show-user-notations > > > > I'd like to do this for the various switches that accept a crypto > > algorithm, unfortunatly I have some problems with getting a good > > listing of the algorithms supported by the users GPG implementation. > > Running 'gpg --version' prints them, but it does so in format that I'm > > not very happy with: > > > > gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.1 > > Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > > This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it > > under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. > > > > Home: ~/.gnupg > > Stödda algoritmer: > > öppen nyckel: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA > > Chiffer: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH > > Kontrollsumma: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512 > > Komprimering: Okomprimerad, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 > > > > As you can see, the format is locale dependant. I'm also worried that > > changed phrasing, further algorithm subdivision, etc. will mean that > > my parsing rules will break. To get a locale independant format, I > > have to invoke GPG with a LC_ALL set to C. This doen't seem very > > optimal to me. Is there some other way of getting this information > > that I've missed? If not, could perhaps the --with-colons switch be > > made to act on --version as well, to get an more robust format? > > > > gpg --verbose --version
The only change in the output format when using verbose is that some algorithms have what I assume to be an alternative name in parenthesis, and that the listings of algorithms are now linebreaked. The output is still locale dependant, it is still designed to be human-readable rather than machine readable, and the multiline output makes it slighly harder to parse, so this doesn't really help me. > > gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.1 > Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it > under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. > > Home: ~/.gnupg > Supported algorithms: > Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA > Cipher: 3DES (S2), CAST5 (S3), BLOWFISH (S4), AES (S7), AES192 (S8), > AES256 (S9), TWOFISH (S10) > Hash: MD5 (H1), SHA1 (H2), RIPEMD160 (H3), SHA256 (H8), SHA384 (H9), > SHA512 (H10) > Compression: Uncompressed (Z0), ZIP (Z1), ZLIB (Z2) > > HTH, > -- > Alphax | /"\ > Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign > OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 | X Against HTML email & vCards > http://tinyurl.com/cc9up | / \ > -- Axel _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
