Encrypting import's output with gpg at the same time

Question

The import command saves screenshot in a file. Is there a way to encrypt that file at the same time using gpg, without saving the image file first? gpg accepts input from stdin but it seems that import doesn't support writing files to stdout, so I can't pipe output of the import to gpg.

Answer 1

The import command on my system supports writing to stdout. Just use - as the filename. You'll probably want to prefix that with the image format you want, e.g.:

import png:- | gpg ...