Issue occured while generating the key using Git bash

Question

Not able to generate the key with Git bash

giving the error Bad escape character 'ygen'

while running the key generation command ssh -keygen -t rsa -C ""

Looks like it's breaking on "ygen" part of "keygen". Looking at name I suspect some weird keyboard layout or encoding. — Bartek Banachewicz
– Bartek Banachewicz, Commented Jul 8, 2013 at 12:13

Johan Lundberg · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-08 12:16:51Z

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The command is not

ssh -keygen

it is (without space)

ssh-keygen

ssh interprets the e part of -ke as an option to set the escape char, and ygen is not a valid escape char. There you go ;)

answered Jul 8, 2013 at 12:16

Johan Lundberg

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