A simple shell script to initiate ssh agent and add ssh keys at the start of shell. It also provides convenient functions to create and remove ssh keys.

sshAgentInit.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Author: Argus K (https://github.com/Argus-Khan) 
# Feel free to hit me up ( 0 u 0 )/ 


# SET PATHS based on your ssh dir configs 
SSH_PRV_DIR="$HOME/.secrets";
SSH_PUB_DIR="$HOME/.ssh";
SSH_AGENT_VARIABLES="$HOME/.cache/ssh-agent-init";


if ! [ -d "$HOME/.cache/" ]; then
  mkdir "$HOME/.cache/" 
fi


if ! [ -d "$SSH_PUB_DIR" ]; then
  mkdir "$SSH_PUB_DIR" 
fi


if ! [ -d "$SSH_PRV_DIR" ]; then
  mkdir "$SSH_PRV_DIR" 
fi


if ! [ "$(pidof ssh-agent)" ]; then
  ssh-agent -s > "$SSH_AGENT_VARIABLES"
fi


source "$SSH_AGENT_VARIABLES" > /dev/null 2>&1


if [ -n "$(ls -A $SSH_PRV_DIR)" ]; then
  for file in "$SSH_PRV_DIR"/*; do
    ssh-add "$file" > /dev/null 2>&1 
  done
fi


# Generates ssh key pair, moves them to respective dirs and copies the public key to clipbaord.
keygen(){
  if [ $# -gt 1 ];then
    echo -e "\033[0;31m Err:\033[0m Too many arguments, expected 1 given $#."
    return 1;
  fi
  ssh-keygen -q -N '' -t ed25519 -f "$SSH_PUB_DIR/$1"
  wl-copy < "$SSH_PUB_DIR/$1.pub" || xclip -sel clip < "$SSH_PUB_DIR/$1.pub"
  echo "Public key copied."
  mv "$SSH_PUB_DIR/$1" "$SSH_PRV_DIR/"
  ssh-add "$SSH_PRV_DIR/$1" 
}


# Removes SSH keys, only takes the name of the key file.
keyrm(){
  if [ $# -gt 1 ];then
    echo -e "\033[0;31m Err:\033[0m Too many arguments, expected 1 given $#."
    return 1;
  fi
  if [ -f "$SSH_PRV_DIR/$1" ]; then
  echo -e "Removing keys:\n$SSH_PUB_DIR/$1.pub\n$SSH_PRV_DIR/$1"
  rm -i "$SSH_PRV_DIR/$1" "$SSH_PUB_DIR/$1.pub"
else 
    echo -e "\033[0;31m Err:\033[0m Key not found."
  fi
}