.TH GPG-CHECK-PATTERN "1" "March 2016" "gpg-check-pattern (GnuPG) 2.1.11" "User Commands"

.SH NAME
gpg-check-pattern \- Check a passphrase on stdin against the patternfile

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gpg\-check\-pattern
.RI [ options ]
.I patternfile

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B gpg\-check\-pattern
checks a passphrase given on stdin against a specified patternfile.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
Produce verbose output
.TP
.B \-\-check
run only a syntax check on the patternfile
.TP
.BR \-0 ",  " \-\-null
input is expected to be null delimited
.PP
Please report bugs to <https://dev.gnupg.org>.

.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

This manpage was written by \fBDaniel Kahn Gillmor\fR for the Debian
distribution (but may be used by others).