On Saturday, June 11, 2022 10:25:34 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 09:54:17AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > eval `ssh-agent`
> For the record, the command you've got here is written in a very > antiquated way. A better (as well as more modern) way to write it > would be: > > eval "$(ssh-agent)" I am curious about the origin of the more modern syntax -- was it driven (or partially driven) by the possiblity of (a human) confusing the backticks for single quotes (like I did)? > The lack of outer double quotes in the antiquated command would normally > cause it to fail, but ssh-agent writes some redundant semicolons, so > that the unquoted legacy command still works.
