car(1)

car1

Crytographic archiver.

Usage

car [options] [paths ...]

car --decode [.carfile]

Overview

Creates and decodes portable cross-platform crytographic archives. An archive can be a collection of files, or an in-stream message that is piped. Output can be to a binary .car file, or ascified text. A symmetric cipher is used, and the passhrase is hashed to form a key.

Options

--cipher=name

Specify symmetric cipher. By default 256 bit aes is used.

--decrypt

Specify decryption operation on an existing car stream or file. If no file is specified, stdin is used.

--digest=name

Specify name of digest algorithm. By default sha will be used.

--follow

Dereference and follow symlinks. Otherwise they are ignored.

--output=filename

Specify output file for a new archive. By default stdout is used.

--overwrite

Always overwrite existing files without prompting.

--quiet

Non-interactive and no status output.

--recursive

If argument is a directory, recursively scan directory and any subdirectory contents as arguments.

--help

Outputs help screen for the user.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9–11
  4. 12–13

Author

car was written by David Sugar <[email protected]>.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to [email protected] or [email protected].

From ucommon-utils 7.0.1-0.4+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.