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Works. Weirdly enough ssh has the same documented requirement, but it does accept a trailing -i identity_file option.

MSalters
– MSalters

2021-02-23 16:40:28 +00:00
Commented Feb 23, 2021 at 16:40
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So it does, as long as you don’t specify a command! I can see how that would be confusing...

Stephen Kitt
– Stephen Kitt

2021-02-23 16:46:00 +00:00
Commented Feb 23, 2021 at 16:46
Personally, I blame the GNU people for this one. Most GNU tools just let you do that, even though POSIX is pretty explicit about putting options before operands.

Kevin
– Kevin

2021-02-24 01:58:37 +00:00
Commented Feb 24, 2021 at 1:58

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