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## 7 Helper Tools

GnuPG comes with a couple of smaller tools:

- 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.
- gpgsm-gencert.sh: Generate an X.509 certificate request.
- gpg-preset-passphrase: Put a passphrase into the cache.
- gpg-connect-agent: Communicate with a running agent.
- gpgparsemail: Parse a mail message into an annotated format
- symcryptrun: Call a simple symmetric encryption tool.
- gpg-zip: Encrypt or sign files into an archive.