> Its job is to ensure the next ssh to that host will not have an old > host key in the way. If there’s no known_hosts file, that’s done. one could make the same argument about umount; it's job is to make sure a particular device isn't mounted $ umount: /mnt/this-disk-does-not-exist: no mount point specified. umount: /mnt/this-disk-does-not-exist: no mount point specified. $ echo $? 32 > If you really need to test whether that file exists… test(1) exists. and similarly someone could test(1) that ~/.ssh/known_hosts exists before calling ssh-keygen -R (which honestly seems like the easiest solution to the original problem) anyway, this is definitely in the realm of bikeshedding. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
