Connect to Github on Windows WSL/Ubuntu

I wrote this shell script, because each time I opened Windows WSL, I had to manually start the ssh-agent and add my github private key to it, so that I may access Github using the shell 😤.

Well now, you can have this, do that for you! 🎊🎊🎊

Set up

1. Either download or clone this repo
2. Run boot.sh with location of ssh private key as argument
3. Copy the path to the boot.sh file by
   1. cd boot-github-shell-win
   2. Copy output of pwd
4. Make the file executable by chmod u+x boot.sh
5. In case you want this to execute each time you log in, add the following to either your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_login file:
   1. source <path-to-boot-sh-from-step-2.2>

Et Voila! 🥐🗼

Options

You may opt to print details around the execution by calling the script with additional flag -v like so: bash boot.sh <private-key-location> -v