SQ(1)

💖 SQ(1) — the keyring merge glow-up 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Sequoia PGP manual, page one of the SQ(1) saga. this is the User Commands corner of the man pages and we're about to make merging keys feel like a group chat where everyone's certificates finally get along 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sq-keyring-merge — merge keys or keyrings into a single keyring ✨

like, take all your little certificate babies and put them in one basket. it's giving consolidation. it's giving main character energy. 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

sq keyring merge [OPTIONS] FILE

one command, one FILE, infinite possibilities (okay not infinite, but you get the vibe) 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Merge keys or keyrings into a single keyring. that's the whole task. that's the assignment. and it ate. 🔥

Multiple versions of the same certificate are merged together. so if you've got the same cert showing up in different forms, they get smooshed into one. no duplicates left behind, no awkwardness.

Where data is replaced (e.g., secret key material), data from the later certificate is preferred.

⚠️ okay so this part matters: the later certificate wins when there's a conflict. not the earlier one. the later one. so the order of stuff you feed it literally changes the output. keep that in mind, bestie 💜

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

🌈 Subcommand options 🌈

• --output=FILE — write to FILE, or to stdout if you just… don't pass it at all. no pressure. [default: -] 💫
• FILE — read from FILE, or from stdin if you omit it. it's flexible like that. 🙈

🧚 Global options 🧚

See sq(1) for a description of the global options.

like, that's not me being lazy, that's literally the documentation telling us where they live. go peek at sq(1), it's got the whole global options situation handled 💖

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Merge certificate updates. iconic behaviour, honestly:

sq keyring merge bob.pgp bob-updates.pgp

bob's got a cert, bob's got updates, and now they're one happy merged keyring. bob is thriving. bob is slaying. 🌸

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• sq(1)
• sq-keyring(1)

For the full documentation see <https://book.sequoia-pgp.org/>.

go read the full docs, they're lowkey a whole vibe ✨

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💜 VERSION 💜

1.5.0

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! no cap, every single detail stayed exactly where it was supposed to 💅 this was the SQ(1) manual page from the Sequoia PGP crew, version 1.5.0, born from the User Commands section of the manual — and it's still Sequoia PGP up top and Sequoia PGP down at the bottom, keeping the whole thing symmetrical, as it should be. periodt. 🎀✨🫶