Encrypting with the openssl in bash

With a bit of commandlinefu it becomes easy to encrypt and decrypt files with the strong 256 bit aes algorithm using openssl.

Add the following into your ~/.bashrc

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# crypting functions function encrypt {   if [ -t 0 ]; then     # interactive     local fname="$1"     shift     openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -in "$fname" -out "${fname}.enc" $@   else     # piped     perl -e 'use IO::Select; $ready=IO::Select->new(STDIN)->can_read();'     openssl aes-256-cbc -salt $@   fi } function decrypt {   if [ -t 0 ]; then     # interactive     local fname="$1"     shift     openssl aes-256-cbc -d -in "$fname" -out "${fname%\.*}" $@   else     perl -e 'use IO::Select; $ready=IO::Select->new(STDIN)->can_read();'     openssl aes-256-cbc -d $@   fi }

and source it to let changes take effect (source ~/.bashrc).