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authorDirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>2022-04-10 11:58:54 +0300
committerDirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>2022-04-16 16:20:38 +0300
commitc6ff5f9ce3d2478f70affe339d1c960a328a64e9 (patch)
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parente74a84c7a228d0424cfc3042d49cfecf0431b5f4 (diff)
mu-verify.1: update man-page
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man/mu-verify.1 b/man/mu-verify.1
index 38640f7..652db95 100644
--- a/man/mu-verify.1
+++ b/man/mu-verify.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MU VERIFY 1 "June 2015" "User Manuals"
+.TH MU VERIFY 1 "April 2022" "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@ as PGP/GPG signatures) and displaying information about them. The sub-command
works on message files, and does not require the message to be indexed in the
database.
-\fBmu verify\fR depends on \fBgpg\fR, and uses the one it finds in your
-\fBPATH\fR. If you want to use another one, you need to set \fBMU_GPG_PATH\fB
-to the full path to the desired \fBgpg\fR.
-
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
@@ -26,17 +22,10 @@ to the full path to the desired \fBgpg\fR.
attempt to find keys online (see the \fBauto-key-retrieve\fR option in the
\fBgnupg(1)\fR documentation).
-\" .TP
-\" \fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-use\-agent\fR attempt to use the GPG-agent (see the the
-\" \fBgnupg-agent(1)\fR documentation). Note that GPG-agent is running many
-\" desktop-evironment; you can check whether this is the case using:
-\" .nf
-\" $ env | grep GPG_AGENT_INFO
-\" .fi
-
.SH EXAMPLES
-To display aggregated (one-line) information about the signatures in a message:
+To display aggregated (one-line) information about the verification status in a
+message:
.nf
$ mu verify msgfile
.fi
@@ -50,12 +39,14 @@ If you only want to use the exit code, you can use:
.nf
$ mu verify --quiet msgfile
.fi
-which does not give any output.
+which does not give any output unless there is an error.
.SH RETURN VALUE
-\fBmu verify\fR returns 0 when all signatures could be verified to be good,
-and returns some non-zero error code when this is not the case.
+\fBmu verify\fR returns 0 when all signatures could be verified to be good, and
+returns some non-zero error code when this is not the case.
+
+When there are no signatures, returns 0 as well.
.nf
| code | meaning |
@@ -75,5 +66,4 @@ Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR mu (1),
-.BR gpg (1)
+.BR mu (1)