It's all about second parameter of getline in stdio.h, I'll name it 'n' or '__linecapp' below. According to the document: If the buffer is not large enough to
I am running the following in a script: pubkey=$(gpg2 --verbose --export-ssh-key $EXPORT_THIS_ID) sshpass -p$REMOTE_PASS ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHost