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Generate SSH public key fingerprint (github key check)

Useful for comparing the fingerprint shown by github at https://github.com/settings/keys against the public key on your machine to see whether it's a match:

ssh-keygen -l -E md5 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

This lists the MD5 fingerprint

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