I've been moving a private key manually via the terminal and I'm getting an error. I suspect this error is caused by malformed key.

Is there a way to check if a key string is correct?

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You can execute the following commands:

ssh-keygen -y -e -f <private key> 

Takes a private key an prints the corresponding public key which can be directly compared to your available public keys. (Hint: beware of comments or key-options)

You can use also:

openssl dsa -in <private key> -modulus -noout

Display the public keys corresponding to a private key, then compare them.

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