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SSH Pub Key https://webinstall.dev/ssh-pubkey Get your SSH public key. true `ssh-pubkey` will make sure you have an SSH key, and then print it to the screen and place it in `~/Downloads`

Your SSH Public Key is used for secure login from your laptop to servers and other network devices - such as Raspberry Pis, game consoles, and home cloud systems. The file public key always ends in .pub.

The easiest way to get your SSH Public Key:

curl https://webinstall.dev/ssh-pubkey | bash
~/Downloads/id_rsa.johndoe.pub:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDTOhRnzDJNBNBXVCgkxkEaDM4IAp81MtE8fuqeQuFvq5gYLWoZND39N++bUvjMRCveWzZlQNxcLjXHlZA3mGj1b9aMImrvyoq8FJepe+RLEuptJe3md4EtTXo8VJuMXV0lJCcd9ct+eqJ0jH0ww4FDJXWMaFbiVwJBO0IaYevlwcf0QwH12FCARZUSwXfsIeCZNGxOPamIUCXumpQiAjTLGHFIDyWwLDCNPi8GyB3VmqsTNEvO/H8yY4VI7l9hpztE5W6LmGUfTMZrnsELryP5oRlo8W5oVFFS85Lb8bVfn43deGdlLGkwmcJuXzZfostSTHI5Mj7MWezPZyoSqFLl johndoe@MacBook-Air

The standard location for your SSH Public Key:

~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

How to create an SSH Keypair if it doesn't already exist:

if [ -f "$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa" ];then
    ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa -f "$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa" -q -N ""
fi

How to copy your SSH Public Key to from its hidden folder to your Downloads folder:

rsync -av "$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" \
    "$HOME/Downloads/id_rsa.$(whoami).pub"

How to print your public key to the Terminal:

cat "$HOME/Downloads/id_rsa.pub"