Check for existing GPG keys

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Use the following command to check for any existing GPG keys. This wont list key IDs.

gpg --list-secret-keys

To list key IDs, you need to specify --keyid-format=short | long option.

gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long

The short format will list shorter version of key IDs while long displays the whole ID.

Here’s a sample of what the result might look like:

$ gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long
/Users/hubot/.gnupg/secring.gpg
------------------------------------
sec 4096R/3AA5C34371567BD2 2016-03-10 [expires: 2017-03-10]
uid Hubot <hubot@example.com>
ssb 4096R/4BB6D45482678BE3 2016-03-10