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II. Options Reference

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keyserver — specify the keyserver to use to locate keys
output — specify the file in which to place output
recipient — specify the recipient of a public-key encrypted document
armor — ASCII-armor encrypted or signed output
no-greeting — suppress the opening copyright notice but do not enter batch mode
local-user — specifies a user id to use for signing
completes-needed — specifies the number of fully-trusted people needed to validate a new key.
marginals-needed — specifies the number of marginally-trusted people needed to validate a new key.
load-extension — specifies an extension to load.
rfc1991 — try to be more RFC1991 (PGP 2.x) compliant
allow-non-selfsigned-uid — allow the import of keys with user IDs which are not self-signed
cipher-algo — use a specified algorithm as the symmetric cipher
compress-algo — use a specified compression algorithm

Setting options

Options may be specified on the command line or in an options file. The default location of the options file is ~/.gnupg/options. When specifying options in the options file, omit the leading two dashes and instead use simply the option name followed by any arguments. Lines in the file with a hash (#) as the first non-white-space character are ignored.

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