Is there a GnuPG command that shows the number of keys on a keyring?

MFPA expires2012 at rocketmail.com
Thu Jul 26 02:02:07 CEST 2012


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Hi


On Tuesday 24 July 2012 at 11:37:24 AM, in
<mid:87hasxe97f.fsf at vigenere.g10code.de>, Werner Koch wrote:


> In case you want to put this into a HOWTO, you better
> write:

>   gpg2 --with-colons --list-keys|grep "^pub:"|wc -l

> As usual this also works with gpg.

And your comment in a post on another thread, saying there's a
grep-like tool on Windows, prompted me to do a little research in that
direction. It seems (at least on Windows XP) a broadly equivalent
command is:-

gpg --with-colons --list-keys|find /c "pub:"

I could not find a way to check the string "pub:" was at the start of
the line, so the figure will be inaccurate as a key count in the event
any user-ids contain that string.

Thanks to everybody who helped me with this question.

- --
Best regards

MFPA                    mailto:expires2012 at rocketmail.com

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