Automating the generation of master keys

[Werner Koch]

On Wed,  1 Jun 2016 12:47, dashohoxha at gmail.com said:

> I do it in batch mode like this:
>  - https://github.com/dashohoxha/egpg/blob/gnupg-2.0/src/cmd/key/gen.sh#L42

Take care:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  local commands="addkey|4|4096|1m|addkey|6|4096|1m|save"
  commands=$(echo "$commands" | tr '|' "\n")
  script -c "gpg --batch --command-fd=0 --edit-key $GPG_KEY <<< \"$commands\"" /dev/null >/dev/null
  while [[ -n $(ps ax | grep -e '--edit-key' | grep -v grep) ]]; do sleep 0.5; done
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

You can't use gpg this way - it does only work with a certain version
and build if GnuPG.  Canned commands too fragile to use - you need to
process the output of --status-fd and act accordingly.

  ps ax | grep -e '--edit-key' | grep -v grep

does not work either because you assume that there is only one gpg
command running (actually any process with a string '--edit-key').

BTW, Unix people use this trick to avoid the inverse grep:

  grep -e '--edit-ke[y]'



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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