Why the "--export-secret-key" switch is not listed in help screen?

[Mika Suomalainen]

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06.05.2012 21:15, Peter Lebbing kirjoitti:
> It does say in the "gpg --help" output:
> 
>> (See the man page for a complete listing of all commands and
>> options)
> 
> There are many more options and also commands in the full man(ual)
> page. I suppose it was thought that exporting a private key was
> such a relatively "rarely used" command it did not need to be among
> the most used commands listed by "--help". Or it was simply an
> oversight :).
> 
> Peter.
> 

It shouldn't be rarely used. The first thing to do after creating a
key should be backing it up somewhere just in case something happens
someday in my opinion.

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Mika Suomalainen
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