Typing SSH passphrase(s) only once per session

Here’s a very simple way to type SSH passphrases only once. This simple function, to be added in your ~/.bashrc, will make sure that ssh-agent will always be called before ssh, once per session, so you do not have to type your ssh passphrase more than once:

function sshwithauthsock {
 if [ ! -S ~/.ssh/ssh_auth_sock ]; then
   eval `ssh-agent`
   ln -sf "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ~/.ssh/ssh_auth_sock
 fi
 export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/ssh_auth_sock
 ssh-add -l > /dev/null || ssh-add
 "$@" 
}

alias ssh='sshwithauthsock ssh'
alias scp='sshwithauthsock scp'

Check for possibly updated version directly in my repository.