I'm an apologist of RTFMP, which is why I didn't include it ;)

SkyMarshal · on Oct 20, 2012

It's generally appreciated anyway, since man pages don't always have examples [1]:

$> man controlmaster

No manual entry for controlmaster

$> man ssh|grep -i controlmaster

required before slave connections are accepted. Refer to the description of ControlMaster in ssh_config(5) for details.

ControlMaster description of ControlPath and ControlMaster in ssh_config(5) for details.

$> man ssh_config|grep -i controlmaster

ControlMaster

with ControlMaster set to “no” (the default). These sessions will try to reuse the master instance's network connection rather than

Specify the path to the control socket used for connection sharing as described in the ControlMaster section above or the string

When used in conjunction with ControlMaster, specifies that the master connection should remain open in the background (waiting for