Generate Ethereum Private key, Public key, and Address using Bash and OpenSSL

ethereum_keys.sh

# Generate the private and public keys
openssl ecparam -name secp256k1 -genkey -noout | openssl ec -text -noout > key

# Extract the public key and remove the EC prefix 0x04
cat key | grep pub -A 5 | tail -n +2 | tr -d '\n[:space:]:' | sed 's/^04//' > pub

# Extract the private key and remove the leading zero byte
cat key | grep priv -A 3 | tail -n +2 | tr -d '\n[:space:]:' | sed 's/^00//' > priv

# Generate the hash and take the address part
cat pub | keccak-256sum -x -l | tr -d ' -' | tail -c 41 > address

# (Optional) import the private key to geth
geth account import priv

Ubuntu:

cat pub | keccak-256sum -x -l | tr -d ' -' | tail -c 41 > address
keccak-256sum: command not found

@miguelmota Thanks for putting this together. I implemented this for people to use in 1 line if they have NixOS or the Nix package manager installed:

nix run \
  github:realfolk/nix?dir=lib/packages/generate-ethereum-account \
  PATH_TO_STORE_PUBLIC_KEY \
  PATH_TO_STORE_PRIVATE_KEY