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cjp on Sept 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: SSH Tricks

Use mkdir -p to avoid failing if .ssh already exists.

    ssh user@host "mkdir -p .ssh && cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys" < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

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