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  • What is .agent file doing? Also it will raise error on first invocation as the file won't exist yet. Commented Sep 6, 2021 at 6:14
  • @ratherlongname, it stores the environment vars that ssh-add needs to talk to the agent. Yes, the line reading it should have a conditional around it. Commented Sep 6, 2021 at 6:52