apptainer(1)

✨ NAME ✨

apptainer-key-search — Search for keys on a key server 🎀

(and yes bestie, this page lives in the apptainer(1) manual, we're in the right place 💅)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

apptainer key search [search options...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the key search command is literally your little key-server side quest 🔍 — it lets you connect to a key server and go looking for public keys that match whatever argument you passed on the command line.

You can search by name, by email, or by fingerprint / key ID — pick your vibe, they all work 🫶

just so you know: maximum 100 search entities, that's the cap, no cap 💀

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help[=false] — help for search 🥺 (the classic "wait what do I do again" button)
• -l, --long-list[=false] — output long list when searching for keys — i.e. give me all the deets, not just the snack-sized version ✨
• -u, --url="" — specify the key server URL 🌐 (default is "", so it's empty until you fill it in, icon behavior)

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

$ apptainer key search apptainer.org

# search by fingerprint:
$ apptainer key search 8883491F4268F173C6E5DC49EDECE4F3F38D871E

# search by key ID:
$ apptainer key search F38D871E

literally copy, paste, slay 🌈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• apptainer-key(1) — go read the big sibling page, iykyk 👑

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

• 22-Oct-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra 🦋

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💜 cute little sign-off: this whole page was Auto generated by spf13/cobra, and the date on the bottom of the original was Oct 2026 — so yeah, that's the vibe, mwah 💋