script to clean my keyring

[John Clizbe]

Michael wrote:
> I like to clean my key ring automatically. I have put the attached lines 
> together to do this. But something is wrong, the script shows the data 
> which need to be changed but the update is not saved. Experts, what is 
> wrong here??
> 
> for i in `gpg --list-keys --fixed-list-mode --with-colons |
> grep "^pub" | cut -f5 -d":"` ; do
>                 gpg --batch --yes --edit-key $i clean
> done

How about doing it this way:

    cp pubring.gpg pubring.tmp
    gpg --import-options import-clean --import pubring.tmp

> And a general Question: 
> I like to frequently run "gpg --refresh-key" and after this the above 
> script, in case it works, to get rid of the overhead. Do you think this 
> is a good idea to do so?

    gpg --keyserver-options import-clean \
      --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.org refresh-keys



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