hongkongkiwi/generate-ssh-key

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Simple one liner to generate an SSH key without a password in the default place with the comment as hostname then print out the public key for copy and paste.

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HOSTNAME=`hostname` ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "$HOSTNAME" -f "$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa" -P "" && cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

pligor commented Aug 8, 2022

Why not auto copy in clipboard ?
You need to install xclip either in linux or mac:

linux: sudo apt-get install xclip

mac: brew install xclip

and then append to any of the above commands:

| xclip -selection clipboard

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