Me in IT UNIX/Linux consultancy

some pollish ;-)
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#!/bin/sh
#from http://meinit.nl/enter-your-ssh-passphrase-once-use-it-many-times-even-f...
set -x
RCSRev=`sh -c "echo '$Revision: 1.2 $' | cut -f2 -d' ' "`
VER=$RCSRev
PN=`basename "$0"`
set -x
#not work# umask 0177
variables="$HOME"/.ssh/"$PN"_variables

sshadd() {
set -x
. "$variables" > /dev/null
ssh-add -l > /dev/null 2>&1
case "$?" in
1)
ssh-add > /dev/null 2>&1
;;
2)
rm "$variables"
sshagent
;;
esac
}

sshagent() {
set -x
if [ -f "$variables" ] ; then
sshadd
else
ssh-agent -s > "$variables"
sshadd
fi
}

sshagent
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and just do make it save ;-)

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# This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line,
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# Wrapped by Wolfgang Anger on Thu Dec 13 15:11:24 2007
#
# This archive contains:
# ssh_agent_start
#
# Modification/access file times will be preserved.
# Error checking via sum(1) will be performed.

LANG=""; export LANG
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH; export PATH
EXIT_STATUS=0

if sum -r /dev/null 2>&1
then
sumopt='-r'
else
sumopt=''
fi

echo x - ssh_agent_start
sed 's/^@//' >ssh_agent_start <<'@EOF'
:
#!/bin/sh
#from http://meinit.nl/enter-your-ssh-passphrase-once-use-it-many-times-even-f...
set -x
RCSRev=`sh -c "echo '$Revision: 1.2 $' | cut -f2 -d' ' "`
VER=$RCSRev
PN=`basename "$0"`
set -x
#not work# umask 0177
variables="$HOME"/.ssh/"$PN"_variables

sshadd() {
set -x
@. "$variables" > /dev/null
ssh-add -l > /dev/null 2>&1
case "$?" in
1)
ssh-add > /dev/null 2>&1
;;
2)
rm "$variables"
sshagent
;;
esac
}

sshagent() {
set -x
if [ -f "$variables" ] ; then
sshadd
else
ssh-agent -s > "$variables"
sshadd
fi
}

sshagent
@EOF
set `sum $sumopt

Nice script. :)

I've been looking for something like this. But I've encountered some problems:
On my OpenBSD box:
--
/home/raistlin/bin/ssh_agent_start[26]: source: not found
/home/raistlin/bin/ssh_agent_start[26]: 2>&amp : illegal file descriptor name
/home/raistlin/bin/ssh_agent_start[26]: 1: not found
--
Note: source is definitely installed.

On my FreeBSD box:
--
/home/raistlin/bin/ssh_agent_start: 26: Syntax error: Bad fd number
--

Source is definitely in path on both machines. I'm using Zsh on both boxes.
After running the script the variables-file is created and if I then
execute "source ~/.ssh/variables" and "ssh-add" manually
it works.