How to run gpg from a script run by cron?

Question

I have a script that has a part that looks like that:

for file in `ls *.tar.gz`; do
  echo encrypting $file
  gpg --passphrase-file /home/$USER/.gnupg/backup-pas         


        

Answer 1

@skinp Cron jobs are executed by sh, whereas most modern Unixes use bash or ksh for interactive logins. The biggest problem (in my experience) is that sh doesn't understand things like:

export PS1='\u@\h:\w> '

which needs to be changed to:

PS1='\u@\h:\w> '
export PS1

So if cron runs a shell script which defines an environment variable using the first syntax, before running some other command, the other command will never be executed because sh bombs out trying to define the variable.