Extracting information from a key

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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Nico Schottelius wrote:

> Hello!
>
> If I recieved a public key via E-Mail, but I am not sure whether
> I want to import it. Can gnupg before importing
>
> - display the ID of it (readable by other programs)
> - display E-Mail, Name
> - display signatures on the key
> - display other information (key type, length)
> ?
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gpg -v < keyfile

this should show everything you're looking for. if you want to import it, 
just do:

gpg --import < keyfile



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