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title: "Trigger Your GPG Passphrase and Clear Your Agent's Cache — Nick Janetakis"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/trigger-your-gpg-passphrase-and-clear-your-agent-s-cache-nick-janetakis-bp5giqqct
source_url: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/trigger-your-gpg-passphrase-and-clear-your-agents-cache
type: article
source: "Nick Janetakis"
published: 2026-01-27T12:34:44.725Z
updated: 2026-01-27T12:35:05.601Z
tags: ["security", "automation", "git", "bash"]
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# Trigger Your GPG Passphrase and Clear Your Agent's Cache — Nick Janetakis

**[Nick Janetakis](https://daily.dev/sources/nickjanetakis)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

GPG passphrase prompts can cause scripts to hang when signing git commits or performing GPG operations in background processes. Running `echo | gpg --clearsign > /dev/null` triggers the passphrase prompt upfront, allowing subsequent GPG operations to use the cached passphrase. The `gpg-connect-agent reloadagent /bye` command clears the agent's cache for testing purposes. This approach is useful when automating workflows that involve signed commits or GPG operations running in parallel.

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