expect-age

Effortless non-interactive decryption with age

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Warning

This project is deprecated. age now natively supports non-interactive password input via the age-plugin-batchpass plugin. Use that instead.

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❓ Why

age is a modern encryption tool, but it doesn’t natively support non-interactive password input. expect-age bridges this gap, letting you decrypt age-encrypted files automatically—perfect for scripts and automation.

Curious why this is needed? See the discussion here.

🚀 Quick start

First, make sure you have expect installed:

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install expect

# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S expect

# Fedora
sudo dnf install expect

# macOS
brew install expect

Next, add expect-age to your PATH and make it executable. Now you can decrypt files non-interactively:

expect-age "your-password" "/path/to/your/encrypted_file.age" "/path/to/your/output_file.txt"

Automate your workflows with ease ⏩!