Getting the default location from ssh-keygen?

Question

When using ssh-keygen if you don't specify a default directory the default directory is shown:

Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa): 

I need to get the path and file name, "/Users/monkeypunch/.ssh/id_rsa".

Answer 1

How about this:

to getDefaultKeyPath()
    try
        do shell script ("ssh-keygen")
    on error response
        set oldDelim to AppleScript's text item delimiters
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"(", ")"}
        set defaultKeyPath to text item 2 of response
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelim
    end try
    return defaultKeyPath
end getDefaultKeyPath

getDefaultKeyPath() will return /Users/monkeypunch/.ssh/id_rsa.