Bash alias to copy ssh public key

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If you need to copy and paste your public key into dozens of different VM's in Azure or AWS this can be handy.

It copies your public ssh key to the clip board and displays it on screen

# put this into ~/.bash_profile
alias getkey="cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | tee >(pbcopy)"
# and source it
source ~/.bash_profile


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