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Comment by philo23 | Hacker News Reader

There's probably a better way of doing it, but this should check all your public keys if you use more than one, assuming they're in ~/.ssh

  for file in $(ls ~/.ssh/*.pub); do ssh-keygen -lf $file; done

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Not better, but could also be written as:

  find ~/.ssh -name '*.pub' | xargs ssh-keygen -lf

Here's a simple bash function to check all your GitHub keys:

  function check_github_keys {
    username=$1
    i=0
    curl -sw "\n" "https://github.com/${username}.keys" | while IFS="\n" read -r line ; do
      tmp=`mktemp -t githubkey`;
      echo "$line" > $tmp
      res=$(ssh-keygen -lf $tmp)
      rm $tmp
      ((i=i+1))
      echo "${username}.keys:${i}  ${res/ $tmp/}"
    done
  }

Invoke as:

  check_github_keys <username>

I'm sure there's a better way to write that one though!

Your initial "find" version would be better if it used print0 because it would avoid failing on files with spaces in their names:

find ~/.ssh -name '*.pub' -print0 | xargs -0 ssh-keygen -lf

This of course can be rewritten as find ~/.ssh -name \*.pub -exec ssh-keygen -lf {} \;

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