Could not resolve hostname keygen: Name or service not known

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Trying to generate ssh key on my local computer and getting this error for some reason

ssh: Could not resolve hostname keygen: Name or service not known

Can anyone help me? how to fix this…

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Can you show the command as well as the error message? Without the command line we can only speculate. And use the </> formatting of course so that we can read it better. Thanks

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ohh stupid me i was using the wrong command ssh keygen it will be ssh-keygen

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Happens to all of us. Happy to hear you successfully resolved your own problem!