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## get-ssh-agent
# A pretty simple function intended to convince multiple shell sessions to connect to the same
# ssh-agent instance.
AGENT_FILE_NAME='ssh-agent.env'
# XDG runtime path by default is /run/user/$UID
default_runtime_path="/run/user/$UID"
if [[ "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ]]; then
ssh_agent_env_file="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/${AGENT_FILE_NAME}"
else
ssh_agent_env_file="${default_runtime_path}/${AGENT_FILE_NAME}"
fi
function _start_new_ssh_agent () {
ssh_agent_file=$1
killall ssh-agent
# start a new ssh-agent and write its output to the env file.
ssh-agent | grep -v echo >& "$ssh_agent_file"
source "$ssh_agent_file"
echo "New ssh-agent started."
ssh-add
}
if [[ -e "$ssh_agent_env_file" ]]; then
# determine if the pid in the env file is still alive
if [[ "$(source "$ssh_agent_env_file"; ps -ef | grep "$SSH_AGENT_PID")" ]]; then
source "$ssh_agent_env_file"
echo "Existing ssh-agent environment configured with pid ${SSH_AGENT_PID}."
else
echo "Existing ssh-agent appears to be dead."
_start_new_ssh_agent "$ssh_agent_env_file"
fi
else
echo "No existing ssh-agent found."
_start_new_ssh_agent "$ssh_agent_env_file"
fi