Re: [dev] ssh-agent stanza in POSIX shell

[Martin Kopta]

Reminds me http://www.ioccc.org :-)

On 10/30/2011 08:04 PM, Sime Ramov wrote:

I've found the following clever ssh-agent stanza in Richard Crowley's
`.profile`[https://raw.github.com/rcrowley/home/master/.profile]:

which ssh-agent>/dev/null&&  {
         : ${SSH_AUTH_SOCK:=$(echo /tmp/ssh-*/agent.* | cut -d" " -f1)}
         [ -S "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]&&  {
                 export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
         } || {
                 eval $(ssh-agent)
                 ssh-add
         }
}

Wondering why it doesn't work properly in OpenBSD ksh as I am not so
good with POSIX sh.

It works partially, i.e. it spawns a new agent on every shell
invocation.