SQ(1)

NAME
sq dearmor - Converts ASCII to binary

SYNOPSIS
sq [GLOBAL OPTIONS] dearmor [OPTIONS] FILE

DESCRIPTION
Converts ASCII to binary.

To make encrypted data easier to handle and transport, OpenPGP data can be transformed to an ASCII representation called ASCII Armor. sq transparently handles armored data, but this subcommand can be used to explicitly convert existing ASCII-encoded OpenPGP data to its binary representation.

The converse operation is "sq armor".

OPTIONS

  Global options

-f, --force
    Overwrites existing files

--help
    Print help information

--known-notation=NOTATION
    Adds NOTATION to the list of known notations

--output-format=FORMAT
    Produces output in FORMAT, if possible

--output-version=VERSION
    Produces output variant VERSION.

--version
    Print version information

  Subcommand options

--help
    Print help information

-o, --output=FILE
    Writes to FILE or stdout if omitted

--version
    Print version information

EXAMPLES

Convert a ASCII certificate to binary

    sq dearmor ascii-juliet.pgp

Convert a ASCII message to binary

    sq dearmor ascii-message.pgp

SEE ALSO
sq(1).

For the full documentation see <https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sq/>.

VERSION
0.28.0 (sequoia-openpgp 1.13.0, using Nettle)