[FEATURE REQ, RFC], improving ergonomic HMI fingerprint cross verification

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [FEATURE REQ, RFC], improving ergonomic HMI fingerprint...:

>> As an example of use, I would do something like:
>>
>> 	gpg --fingerprint mooney
>>
>> and then cut and paste (or sed out) the fingerprint and echo it into
>> the program, like
>>
>> 	echo "4A21 BFC1 E902 4518 968A  55A9 015F 6BA4 4757 6386" | callsign
>
> Try this:
>
>   gpg --with-colons --fingerprint 99242560 | egrep '^fpr' | cut -d: -f10 | callsign

Thanks, my preferred method would actually be:

   gpg --fingerprint mooney | sed -ne 's/^.*Key fingerprint = //p' | callsign

but I showed the "easy and straightforward" method for the masses.

Tim
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