From 8a9a7be0c7913e27c38ad1d074fba6d8afa0d271 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Vietz <git@martin.vietz.eu>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:17:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Descripe howto upload a key from shell

---
 README.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 546b51a..e9cd6cd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -130,6 +130,12 @@ POST /api/v1/key
 
 * **publicKeyArmored**: The ascii armored public PGP key to be uploaded
 
+E.g. to upload a key from shell:
+```bash
+curl https://keys.mailvelope.com/api/v1/key --data "{\"publicKeyArmored\":\"$( \
+  gpg --armor --export-options export-minimal --export $GPGKEYID | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\\n/g' \
+  )\"}" 
+```
 
 ### Verify uploaded key (via link in email)