ssh-agent

Spawn an SSH Agent process. An SSH Agent holds SSH keys decrypted in memory until removed or the process is killed. See also ssh-add, which can add and manage keys held by an SSH Agent. More information: https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.

Start an SSH Agent for the current shell:
eval $(ssh-agent)
Kill the currently running agent:
ssh-agent -k

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