Help with a script for AES Crypt

[Jon]

Hello Paulej
I am very interested though what that sample script file encryption AES Crypt in large quantities from several folders on your computer.
Thank you for your software!

[paulej]

If using Linux, you could easily write a script to encrypt all files in select directories. It might also be possible in DOS, but I'm not a batch script guru and never used PowerShell.

AES Crypt can encrypt any number of selected files from the GUI at once. However, it doesn't operate on directories. For that, I generally use ZIP or tar files, myself.

[Jon]

Okay, but if you get a list of addresses that you want to encrypt the file, and pass it to the program, it will encrypt the files on the list?
example:
DIR /B /S C:\*.txt;C:\*.jpg /A-D > log.txt | aescrypt -e -p apple
Wakes it work?

[paulej]

Okay, but if you get a list of addresses that you want to encrypt the file, and pass it to the program, it will encrypt the files on the list?
example:
DIR /B /S C:\*.txt;C:\*.jpg /A-D > log.txt | aescrypt -e -p apple
Wakes it work?

No, that won't work. However, if you had a way to put those on the right side of the command, it would.

To do something like that using Linux, I could write this:

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for x in `ls /some/dir /another/dir`
do
    aescrypt -p apples -e $x
done

It's been years since I did any batch file writing in windows, but if memory serves, there is a "for" command that works kinda like that in Linux's bash shell. I assume Windows powershell has this ability, too.

The error in your original example is that one or more filenames must be specified at the end. If stdin is used, rather than a filename, then - takes the place of a filename, but there is only one file piped to aescrypt that way.

[Jon]

Excuse me for my importunity, but I'm probably not so explained. The bottom line is that I want to implement encryption of files on a mask on the local disk. To do this, I get a list of all files matching mask, write down their addresses in the file log.txt and try to make the program encrypt each file in the list. Is it real ?

[paulej]

I'm sure it can be done with either batch files or Power Shell. Unfortunately, I doubt know how to do it.