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MilosZ: Created page with "Add to .bash_profile <br> <pre> SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/agent-environment" function start_agent { echo "Initialising new SSH agent..." /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#..."
2021-06-17T08:34:46Z
<p>Created page with "Add to .bash_profile <br> <pre> SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/agent-environment" function start_agent { echo "Initialising new SSH agent..." /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Add to .bash_profile<br />
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<pre><br />
SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/agent-environment"<br />
<br />
function start_agent {<br />
echo "Initialising new SSH agent..."<br />
/usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"<br />
echo succeeded<br />
chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"<br />
. "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null<br />
/usr/bin/ssh-add;<br />
}<br />
<br />
# Source SSH settings, if applicable<br />
<br />
if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then<br />
. "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null<br />
#ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin<br />
ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {<br />
start_agent;<br />
}<br />
else<br />
start_agent;<br />
fi<br />
</pre></div>
MilosZ