Unable to copy ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Question

I’m following in Generating SSH Keys, it says

sudo apt-get install xclip

Downloads and installs xclip. If you don\'t have <

Answer 1

DISPLAY=:0 xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub didn't work for me (ubuntu 14.04), but you can use :

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

to get your public key