In my (seemingly unending) quest to understand ssh, I've come across a document that calls for running =eval 'ssh-agent'= from a command line.
I wondered why, as I thought I would get the same result from just running =ssh-agent=, but the results are different -- see below: $ eval `ssh-agent` Agent pid 23929 $ ssh-agent SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-uLqQ9VWX0RL7/agent.23932; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=23933; export SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 23933; Can anybody on here explain what is going on / why?
