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3.1 Commands
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Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that
only one command is allowed.

'--version'
     Print the program version and licensing information.  Note that you
     cannot abbreviate this command.

'--help, -h'
     Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line
     options.  Note that you cannot abbreviate this command.

'--dump-options'
     Print a list of all available options and commands.  Note that you
     cannot abbreviate this command.

'--server'
     Run in server mode and wait for commands on the 'stdin'.  The
     default mode is to create a socket and listen for commands there.
     This is only used for testing.

'--daemon'
     Run in background daemon mode and listen for commands on a socket.
     This is the way 'dirmngr' is started on demand by the other GnuPG
     components.  To force starting 'dirmngr' it is in general best to
     use 'gpgconf --launch dirmngr'.

'--supervised'
     Run in the foreground, sending logs to stderr, and listening on
     file descriptor 3, which must already be bound to a listening
     socket.  This option is deprecated and not supported on Windows.

'--list-crls'
     List the contents of the CRL cache on 'stdout'.  This is probably
     only useful for debugging purposes.

'--load-crl FILE'
     This command requires a filename as additional argument, and it
     will make Dirmngr try to import the CRL in FILE into it's cache.
     Note, that this is only possible if Dirmngr is able to retrieve the
     CA's certificate directly by its own means.  In general it is
     better to use 'gpgsm''s '--call-dirmngr loadcrl filename' command
     so that 'gpgsm' can help dirmngr.

'--fetch-crl URL'
     This command requires an URL as additional argument, and it will
     make dirmngr try to retrieve and import the CRL from that URL into
     it's cache.  This is mainly useful for debugging purposes.  The
     'dirmngr-client' provides the same feature for a running dirmngr.

'--shutdown'
     This commands shuts down an running instance of Dirmngr.  This
     command has currently no effect.

'--flush'
     This command removes all CRLs from Dirmngr's cache.  Client
     requests will thus trigger reading of fresh CRLs.