SPLITKEYS(1)

💖 SPLITKEYS(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a General Commands Manual situation — it's splitkeys, and it lives in section 1, iykyk 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

splitkeys — it splits an OpenPGP keyring. that's the whole job. she's a specialist 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

splitkeys [ maxkeys ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, splitkeys takes one big OpenPGP keyring and goes chop chop 🔪✨ into a whole bunch of smaller keyrings, and every single one of them gets named like this:

splitfile-%d.pgp

and the glow-up is that none of these baby keyrings contains more than maxkeys keys. no cap. 🫶

if you don't pass maxkeys at all? she just defaults to 10000 and honestly? valid. main character energy 🍓

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

this is the part where it gets iconic:

splitkeys 1000 < keyring.gpg

what this does: it splits keyring.gpg into a collection of keyrings, and every one of them has 1000 keys at most. like, 1000. maximum. periodt. 👑

not me reading keyring.gpg off stdin with that < — redirects are literally the moment, bestie 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

splitkeys was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> — absolute legend, we stan 🌈

you can find it as part of onak over at http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/onak.html — go look, it's giving classic-internet treasure 💖

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• onak(1) — the rest of the family, go say hi 🎀

k bye bestie, ily 💕 this was SPLITKEYS(1) from the General Commands Manual (section 1, obviously) — no version number or date on this one, she's timeless like that ✨🌸🦋