Unable to find the swarm.key in my installed IPFS

[mssathees]

Can anyone detail how to get a swarm key and prepare a private IPFS network. though i followed github and few sites it is very difficult to follow. I'm not a techie but still i'm trying to understand and implement.
I have successfully installed IPFS and used below script in CMD and got ipfs-swarm-key-gen. But unable to find where the swarm key is.

npm install ipfs-swarm-key-gen -g

I'm get struck here for a long time and need someone to assist in detail. Thanks.

[0zAND1z]

@mssathees , please furnish more info:

1. Do you have go installed? Is your $GOPATH properly set ?
2. Have you initialized ipfs by executing ipfs init ?
3. You may want to try the go package by running go get -u github.com/Kubuxu/go-ipfs-swarm-key-gen/ipfs-swarm-key-gen
4. Make sure you execute this command thereafter: ipfs-swarm-key-gen > ~/.ipfs/swarm.key
5. Also can you confirm the contents by executing the following command: cat ~/.ipfs/swarm.key considering that you have the default $IPFS_PATH without any changes made.

[HafsaRanaaa]

hi, i have tried generating swarm.key for ipfs private setup results in empty swarm.key file and hence fail daemon to start please guide.