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\ bjr149 (29 Oct 2007)
. \ Sean Rima (30 Oct 2007)
. \ Ron Rogers Jr. (30 Oct 2007)
. \ Robert J. Hansen (30 Oct 2007)
. . \ Werner Koch (30 Oct 2007)

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Subject:	Re: beginner to gnupg
Group:	Gnupg-users
From:	Werner Koch
Date:	30 Oct 2007

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:40, rjh said:

> Note that it's "--armor --export", not "--export --armor". The former
> will work fine. The latter will try to export a key named "--armor",

That is not correct. The ordering of options and commands does not
matter. However mixing arguments ("key name") and options/commands does
not work as soon as the first non-option/command has been detected all
following items are considered arguments.

There is one caveat: If the first argument start with a dash it will be
viewed as an option. To avoid this the sepcial option "--" may be used
which explicitly declares that all waht follows are arguments.

Note that some options have option-arguments, e.g.

gpg -r Alice -r Bob --encrypt file.txt

Here Alice and Bob are arguments of the -r option. -r (or --recipient)
requires an option and thus gpg expects this. As an alternative you may
use

gpg --recipient=Alice --recipient=Bob --encrypt file.txt

And in scripts you would use

gpg --recipient=Alice --recipient=Bob --encrypt -- $FILE

so that you can even encrypt files with names like '--armor'.

Salam-Shalom,

Werner

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