On 2025-01-09 15:27, Corey Hickey wrote:
From: Corey Hickey <chickey@xxxxxxxxxx>
When ssh-add is used in a script like:
if ! KEY_LISTING=$(ssh-add -l 2>&1) ; then
echo "SSH agent error" >&2
exit 2
fi
...the operation fails when there is an agent but there are no keys in
the agent. This is because ssh-add exits with status of 1. If the
intent is to examine the keys in the agent, then this behavior is
undesired and not easily distinguishable from an error (e.g. no agent
running).
To address this, add a new option -p to make ssh-add behavior more
friendly to parsing.
I took the approach of preserving current behavior by default, but
another approach would be to:
* print "The agent has no identities." to stderr instead of stdout
* exit with a status of 0 instead of 1
If that alternate approach would be better, please let me know and I
will send a new patch.
Thank you,
Corey
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