feeding a private rsa key through the shell to get the public

[Dr. Hawkins]

I'm successfully generating an rsa key and putting it where I needed it (a
field).

I'm not having any luck extracting it from a shell command.

I want to do something like

put the shell of "echo " & fld privateKey & " | openssl rsa -pubout"

but this yields a blank line and the private key.

(on the command line,
cat testkey.pem | openssl rsa -pubout

produces the public key)

I'm trying to avoid writing a diskfile or making any assumptions about the
file system.

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Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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