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10 Helper Tools
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GnuPG comes with a couple of smaller tools:

* Menu:

* watchgnupg::            Read logs from a socket.
* gpgv::                  Verify OpenPGP signatures.
* addgnupghome::          Create .gnupg home directories.
* gpgconf::               Modify .gnupg home directories.
* applygnupgdefaults::    Run gpgconf for all users.
* gpg-preset-passphrase:: Put a passphrase into the cache.
* gpg-connect-agent::     Communicate with a running agent.
* dirmngr-client::        How to use the Dirmngr client tool.
* gpgparsemail::          Parse a mail message into an annotated format
* gpgtar::                Encrypt or sign files into an archive.
* gpg-mail-tube::         Encrypt rfc822 formated mail in a pipeline.
* gpg-check-pattern::     Check a passphrase on stdin against the patternfile.