PGP-CLEAN(1)

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version 2.12 · 8 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 PGP-CLEAN — it's giving "clean your keys, bestie" 💅

okay so real talk, this is the pgp-clean manpage from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew, and it is ✨lowkey iconic✨. it does exactly one thing and it does it flawlessly, no notes, periodt.

🌸 NAME 🌸

pgp-clean — remove all non-self signatures from key. yes that's it. that's the whole personality. a girl who deletes things. 🧹✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pgp-clean [-s] keyid [keyid ...]

look at her. simple. elegant. ate.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea bestie ☕ — pgp-clean takes a list of keyids on the command line and outputs an ascii-armored keyring on stdout for each key, with all signatures except self-signatures stripped out. 💀

the way that it's for shrinking keys before you send them out after signing (like, say, with caff)? yeah. that's the whole vibe check. it's the "declutter my life" of GnuPG. 🧚

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -s, --export-subkeys — do not remove subkeys. (they get pruned by default, no cap. 🫶)
  • keyid — use this key. that's the one you're cleaning, girl. 🌈

💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

  • HOME — the default home directory. it's home. 🏠
  • GNUPGBIN — the gpg binary. default: gpg.
  • GNUPGHOME — the default working directory for gpg. default: $HOME/.gnupg.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • $HOME/.gnupg/pubring.gpg — default GnuPG keyring. that's the girlypop in question. 👑

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the besties it runs with. iykyk. 🔥

💅 AUTHOR 💅

Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org> — the main character who made this happen. 😌

this manpage was written in POD by Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>. shoutout to the documentation queen. 🎀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌸🦋💖

this lil slice of Unix wisdom came to you via perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-02-09. obsessed. mwah. 💋✨

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