gpg --gen-key keyring behaviour

[John Clizbe]

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zem wrote:
>
> Also, I think I've discovered a bug in batch mode key generation with
> the win32 client 1.2.2.  If I specify a secret keyring with '%secring',
> --gen-key overwrites existing keys in that keyring.  Removing the
> '%pubring' and '%secring' directives and using '--no-default-keyring',
> '--keyring' and '--secret-keyring' instead, fixes the problem - the
> win32 client doesn't ignore these.
>
Environment variables in Win32 need '%' on both ends of the name to be
expanded.

C:\> echo %PATH   results in '%PATH'

C:\> echo %PATH%  results in the full path string

What happens if you use %pubring% and %secring% instead of %pubring and
%secring ?

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