secret key not available

[Jonas Hedman]

On 16-06-01 21:14:16, DODDI ANTHONY BALARAJU cs15d008 wrote:
>  hI,
> 
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37566637/why-showing-error-gpg-signing-failed#>
> I'm new to this GPG usage. I dont need any internals. I am running a shell
> script in which following line causes error :
> 
> gpg --yes --sign message.txt
> 
> It shows the following error:
> 
> gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
> gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
> 
> How can I solve this error, without modifying the command? (do I need to
> change any settings). I am using gpg version (GnuPG) 1.4.16
> 
> >which gpg
> 
> is giving the output
> 
> /usr/bin/gpg
> 
> I Tried with --default-key <something>
> 
> Still it dint work!!
> 
> Any suggestion to get past this error will be greatly helpful.
> 
> Thank you

Did you generate a key? (gpg --gen-key) 

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