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While reading Assuan commands, gpg-agent also allows a few special
commands to control its operation. These control commands all start
with a slash (/
).
/echo args
Just print args.
/let name value
Set the variable name to value. Variables are only
substituted on the input if the /subst
has been used.
Variables are referenced by prefixing the name with a dollar sign and
optionally include the name in curly braces. The rules for a valid name
are identically to those of the standard bourne shell. This is not yet
enforced but may be in the future. When used with curly braces no
leading or trailing white space is allowed.
If a variable is not found, it is searched in the environment and if found copied to the table of variables.
Variable functions are available: The name of the function must be followed by at least one space and the at least one argument. The following functions are available:
get
Return a value described by the argument. Available arguments are:
cwd
The current working directory.
homedir
The gnupg homedir.
sysconfdir
GnuPG’s system configuration directory.
bindir
GnuPG’s binary directory.
libdir
GnuPG’s library directory.
libexecdir
GnuPG’s library directory for executable files.
datadir
GnuPG’s data directory.
serverpid
The PID of the current server. Command /serverpid
must
have been given to return a useful value.
unescape args
Remove C-style escapes from args. Note that \0
and
\x00
terminate the returned string implicitly. The string to be
converted are the entire arguments right behind the delimiting space of
the function name.
unpercent args
unpercent+ args
Remove percent style escaping from args. Note that %00
terminates the string implicitly. The string to be converted are the
entire arguments right behind the delimiting space of the function
name. unpercent+
also maps plus signs to a spaces.
percent args
percent+ args
Escape the args using percent style escaping. Tabs, formfeeds,
linefeeds, carriage returns and colons are escaped. percent+
also
maps spaces to plus signs.
errcode arg
errsource arg
errstring arg
Assume arg is an integer and evaluate it using strtol
. Return
the gpg-error error code, error source or a formatted string with the
error code and error source.
+
-
*
/
%
Evaluate all arguments as long integers using strtol
and apply
this operator. A division by zero yields an empty string.
!
|
&
Evaluate all arguments as long integers using strtol
and apply
the logical oeprators NOT, OR or AND. The NOT operator works on the
last argument only.
/definq name var
Use content of the variable var for inquiries with name.
name may be an asterisk (*
) to match any inquiry.
/definqfile name file
Use content of file for inquiries with name.
name may be an asterisk (*
) to match any inquiry.
/definqprog name prog
Run prog for inquiries matching name and pass the entire line to it as command line arguments.
/datafile name
Write all data lines from the server to the file name. The file is opened for writing and created if it does not exists. An existing file is first truncated to 0. The data written to the file fully decoded. Using a single dash for name writes to stdout. The file is kept open until a new file is set using this command or this command is used without an argument.
/showdef
Print all definitions
/cleardef
Delete all definitions
/sendfd file mode
Open file in mode (which needs to be a valid fopen
mode string) and send the file descriptor to the server. This is
usually followed by a command like INPUT FD
to set the
input source for other commands.
/recvfd
Not yet implemented.
/open var file [mode]
Open file and assign the file descriptor to var. Warning: This command is experimental and might change in future versions.
/close fd
Close the file descriptor fd. Warning: This command is experimental and might change in future versions.
/showopen
Show a list of open files.
/serverpid
Send the Assuan command GETINFO pid
to the server and store
the returned PID for internal purposes.
/sleep
Sleep for a second.
/hex
/nohex
Same as the command line option --hex.
/decode
/nodecode
Same as the command line option --decode.
/subst
/nosubst
Enable and disable variable substitution. It defaults to disabled unless the command line option --subst has been used. If /subst as been enabled once, leading whitespace is removed from input lines which makes scripts easier to read.
/while condition
/end
These commands provide a way for executing loops. All lines between
the while
and the corresponding end
are executed as long
as the evaluation of condition yields a non-zero value or is the
string true
or yes
. The evaluation is done by passing
condition to the strtol
function. Example:
/subst /let i 3 /while $i /echo loop couter is $i /let i ${- $i 1} /end
/if condition
/end
These commands provide a way for conditional execution. All lines between
the if
and the corresponding end
are executed only if
the evaluation of condition yields a non-zero value or is the
string true
or yes
. The evaluation is done by passing
condition to the strtol
function.
/run file
Run commands from file.
/bye
Terminate the connection and the program
/help
Print a list of available control commands.
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