On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 09:54:17AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > eval `ssh-agent`
> Then, in accordance with my vague recollection of what I think of as Greg > Woolidge's typical advice (which I (may mis-)remember as "always quote"), I > thought the backticks (that I incorrectly saw as single quotes) were just the > "proper" way to specify a command to be eval'ed. 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)" 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.
