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Fish shell script to run ssh-agent correctly, i.e. only start a new one when necessary
#!/usr/bin/fish
#
# Fish script to run ssh-agent correctly, i.e. only start a new one when
# necessary. Drop it into ~/.config/fish/conf.d and forget about it.
#
# Uses ps and kill, everything else is done inside fish.
#
# Requires fish 2.3 for the string manipulation.
#
# Works with Fedora 26 and CentOS 7, for CentOS 6 you'll need a third party
# repo for fish anyway so make sure it's recent enough.
#
if status --is-interactive
# Load the SSH environment variables
if test -f ~/.ssh/environment
source ~/.ssh/environment
end
# Check the environment variables are present
if test \( "$SSH_AGENT_PID" != "" \) -a \( "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" != "" \) -a \( -S "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" \)
# Check it's not pointing at GNOME askpass
if string match -rv "/run/user/.*" "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" >/dev/null
# Check the agent's actually running
if ps -p "$SSH_AGENT_PID" >/dev/null
set -e SSH_ASKPASS
echo "Found running ssh-agent"
exit
end
end
end
# If we get this far, something is wrong
# Kill the existing agent process if possible
if test "$SSH_AGENT_PID" != ""
kill -s TERM "$SSH_AGENT_PID" 2>/dev/null
end
# Start up a new agent, set the environment variables, and store them
# in the file for other shell instances
set a (ssh-agent) >/dev/null
set s (string match -r '.*=[^;]*' $a)
rm ~/.ssh/environment 2> /dev/null
for l in $s
set v (string replace -r '=' ' ' $l)
eval "set -x" $v
echo "set -x " $v >> ~/.ssh/environment
end
echo "Started new ssh-agent"
end
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