Error following instructions from ubuntu to setup ssh

[ericzundel]

https://docs.sprites.dev/working-with-sprites/

My desktop is an Ubuntu linux mahcine. My sprite was created this morning.

First of all, I had to add '-s ' to many of the commands in the doc page above. Then I tried:

sprite exec mkdir -p .ssh
cat ~/.ssh/id_*.pub | sprite exec -s <myspritename> tee -a .ssh/authorized_keys

Output:

zundel@pardes01:/tmp/sprite-mount $ cat ~/.ssh/id_*.pub | sprite exec -s dailyspaceimage-dev-tmpl  tee -a .ssh/authorized_keys
Error: unknown shorthand flag: 'a' in -a

Usage: sprite exec [flags] <command> [args...]

It looks like 'sprite' is trying to consume the arguments on the command line intended to be passed to the remote machine? The 'tee -a' argument works for me both locally and remotely.

To workaround, I just copied over my authorized keys to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the sprite by hand.

[kcmartin]

Thanks for the report. The tee -a failure has the same root cause as #164: the parser keeps consuming flags after the positional command. PR #182 converts every sprite exec example in this guide to use the -- separator. Once it merges, the SSH setup commands will read:

sprite exec -- mkdir -p .ssh
cat ~/.ssh/id_*.pub | sprite exec -- tee -a .ssh/authorized_keys

On -s <name>: you're right that this gets repetitive. The intended pattern is to set an active sprite once with sprite use <name> (covered later in the guide under "Set Active Sprite"), after which sprite exec and friends target it automatically. We'll look at surfacing that earlier so it doesn't trip people up.

PR #182 will close this when it merges.