Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>>> >>> So, my manager, in zsh, can do the following: >>> scp -i =(ssh -qnx <snip> cat /etc/ks/ks_dsa) localfile >>> server:/whereitgoes <snip> > I think you'll have to drop the key in a tmp file yourself. Poking > around with strace a bit it looks like that is what zsh actually does > while bash gives what is essentially a named pipe where scp or ssh > will attempt a seek (???) and then fail to read. The subsequent > prompt for a passphrase in nonsense - it has already given up and > closed it by then. THANK YOU, Les. I hadn't gotten to thinking about using strace (admittedly, I'd been busy with other stuff, too). So either I write a tiny script, do it from the server with the actually key, or run it as a zsh command. *piffle* Thanks again. mark