UX: Autogenerate output filename #295
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For standard interactive use, it would be really nice if age autogenerated the output filename.
To be specific,
age -r age1.... myfileage would write output tomyfile.age, or something like that.This would be similar to what gzip (and more) does for compression where
gzip myfilecompresses the file tomyfile.gz.Currently since I have to manually type output file, accidentally overwriting the input file is when running a command like
age -r age1... myfile > myfileis a real possibility. Supporting this would also mean less typing and copy/pasting when using age so in my opinion be a UX improvement.Since the current default is just output to stdout, one way to do this without breaking existing uses may be a '-O' flag slightly similar to curl to auto generate filename, assuming you don't want to break current usage.
PS. I looked through previous Github issues and couldn't find a discussion about this topic.
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