Multiple Subkey Pairs

[David Shaw]

On Mar 13, 2014, at 6:17 PM, MFPA <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-groups at riseup.net> wrote:

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> Hi
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> On Thursday 13 March 2014 at 2:31:06 PM, in
> <mid:1730446.9J4b6oayU7 at inno>, Hauke Laging wrote:
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>> gpg --recipient 0xD4BC64B8\!
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> I've never see it with a backslash before the exclamation mark.
> What does the backslash add?

Probably escaping the exclamation mark to prevent it from being interpreted by the shell.  In bash, at least, it's not necessary as a trailing ! mark doesn't get interpreted by the shell.  Doesn't hurt to escape it though.

David