Age terminates too soon on MacOS about age HOT 5 CLOSED

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/Users/abc/Downloads/Age/age/age ; exit;
abc@MacBook-Air ~ % /Users/abc/Downloads/Age/age/age ; exit;

; exit; effectively kills the terminal session if I'm not missing something?

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<Last login: Wed May  3 18:51:09 on ttys000
/Users/abc/Downloads/Age/age/age ; exit;
abc@MacBook-Air ~ % /Users/abc/Downloads/Age/age/age ; exit;

; exit; effectively kills the terminal session if I'm not missing something?

Yes.

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age is a command line binary, you need to execute it from a terminal regardless of how you install it, not from Finder.

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@Jack15911 What we could have communicated better: ; exit part is added by macOS when you click on the binary in Finder, it has nothing to do with age. If you execute age from your terminal, it should print help but not close the terminal session.

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Thanks. There are a couple of related things that cause me concern. First, I need to use MacOS Terminal for age, but command line is not my first language and it's a bit of a struggle. I now have the age binary working, but having to use "./age" seems clumsy. I'll search for a way to ideally put age and age-keygen into Applications properly. (It worked better under MacPorts, but I eliminated that due to excess tweaks required.) My Linux command line works fine.

Second, I'd like to do an article to help popularize age - I write well, but but I'm not professional and have no journal to which to offer my efforts. I expect many of them will accept free content, however. (I have noted that at least two "How To" articles I've read on age are wrong and aren't following the man page.) I'm particularly interested in age "encrypt to delete" and would like to showcase this for people who have the SSD wear-leveling problem with deleting.

As I mentioned, however, at this point I'm still struggling with making age run under MacOS, so the article is a mid-range goal.

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