Best way to get fingerprint programatically

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 08:19, john doe said:

> In other words, why '--quick-set-expire' requires a fingerprint and does
> not accept a <USER-ID>.

Only the fingerprint is a unique identifier for the keyblock (aka
certificate, public key).  Allowing a User-id would require extra code
in gpg and by the caller to either ask back or to fail if there is an
ambiguity.

The  -F:::::: is an interesting hack but Andrew's or my variant works
with all AWK implementations:

   awk -F: '$1=="fpr" {print $10}' | head -1


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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