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Convert private SSH key for JSON value format
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json-private-key-converter.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Requires AWk and SED to be installed.
export SSH_FILE_PATH="$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa" #replace this with path to your private SSH key
line_count=`wc -l ${SSH_FILE_PATH} | awk '{print $1}'`
last_new_line=`expr $line_count - 1`
cat $SSH_FILE_PATH | sed '1s/$/\\n/' | sed ""$last_new_line"s/$/\\\n/" | tr -d '\n'
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