Automatic resyncing of keys?

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Sunday 21 April 2002 18:21, Dave Chapeskie wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:55:57PM +0200, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > gpg --recv-keys `gpg --list-keys | grep ^pub | sed
> > 's_[^/]*/\([0-9A-F]*\).*_\1_'`
>
> As seen in the archives this is my prefered method which has many
> advantages over the above suggestion:
>
> gpg --with-colons --fast-list-mode --list-keys \
> 	| awk -F: '$1=="pub" {print $5}' \
> 	| sort -u | xargs -n 20 gpg --recv-keys

Many roads lead to Rome.

My command line was the first thing I did come up with when I wanted to 
update my keyring last Thursday. And it worked just fine.

What's the purpose of the "sort -u"? Why do you sort the key ids?

Regards,
Ingo

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