Using Powershell open and pass values to Git Bash

Question

I am creating a powershell script to easily a group of tools include git. I have install git but the problem is I need to open the git bash prompt and pass in a command that will generate SSH keys.

How can I open the git bash prompt and pass the desired values?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:20:46Z

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If you are not protecting your private key with a passphrase, you could use Powershell directly to call ssh-keygen, without having to call the git bash first.

See for instance "automate ssh-keygen for github in powershell":

# Create your GitHub SSH Key
$MyEmailAddress = "[email protected]"
if (! (Test-Path  ("~/.ssh/id_rsa_test"))){
    ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "$MyEmailAddress" -f "id_rsa_test" -P """"

}

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:20

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