accepting location as an input parameter #4
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@ajaygtm71 , we want to make the location parameter optional here, and not mandatory. Probably behind a flag such as -l <location> or --location <location>.
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| private_key_location=~/.ssh/github_rsa # Change this location to where your file is located. | ||
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| private_key_location=~/.ssh/github_rsa # Change this location to where your file is located. |
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Don't remove this yet, we can have a fallback.
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you want to keep both ways ie manually editing and optionally passing parameters?
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Yes. As mentioned above, the location parameter is optional.
| echo 'Booting up ssh-agent...' | ||
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| eval `ssh-agent -s` | ||
| # ssh_agent_running=$(ssh-agent -s) | ||
| ssh_agent_running=$(ssh-agent -s) |
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Can you test this once? I reckon that this might not work.
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yes the variable is storing the command output.
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Right, but the ssh-agent -s command actually outputs the ssh-agent's pid and the socket location and running the command inside eval stores them as local variables. If the eval is removed, ssh-add will no longer work, as shown below:
| echo 'ssh-agent started with output:' $ssh_agent_running | ||
| echo 'Adding private key to ssh-agent...' | ||
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| ssh_add_result=$(ssh-add $private_key_location) | ||
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| if [ "$1" = "-v" ]; then | ||
| echo 'ssh-agent started with output:' $ssh_agent_running |
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The status messages are a part of the 'verbosity' 😅
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same msg is already there in previous if block. so I removed from here
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| private_key_location=~/.ssh/github_rsa # Change this location to where your file is located. |
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Yes. As mentioned above, the location parameter is optional.
| echo 'Booting up ssh-agent...' | ||
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| eval `ssh-agent -s` | ||
| # ssh_agent_running=$(ssh-agent -s) | ||
| ssh_agent_running=$(ssh-agent -s) |
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Right, but the ssh-agent -s command actually outputs the ssh-agent's pid and the socket location and running the command inside eval stores them as local variables. If the eval is removed, ssh-add will no longer work, as shown below:
| echo 'Booting up ssh-agent...' | ||
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| eval `ssh-agent -s` | ||
| # ssh_agent_running=$(ssh-agent -s) | ||
| ssh_agent_running=$(ssh-agent -s) |
Solves #3