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                Automatically start a single instance of ssh-agent for all terminal sessions to share (bash)
              
          
    Installation


mkdir -p ~/.config && touch ~/.config/ssh-agent.pid
Paste the contents of ssh-agent-manage.sh into your .bashrc or .bash_profile or similar
killall -9 ssh-agent
Start a new terminal session (note: old sessions will not see ssh-agent, only new ones)

Details

This snippet, when included in .bashrc, will ensure that your session has a working ssh-agent with all your ssh keys loaded into it. It does this without creating separate ssh-agent processes by: