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Exercise your passphrase memory
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gpg_secret_keys.sh
pkill -SIGHUP gpg-agent; gpg --list-secret-keys | grep sec | awk '{ print $2 }' | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "/" } ; { print $2 }' | sed '/^$/d' | xargs -t -L 1 -J % gpg -o /dev/null -s -u % /dev/null
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Walks all the secret keys in your GPG keychain and signs /dev/null (outputting to /dev/null) so you can make sure you keep all your various passphrases fresh in your memory.

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