[Bug 2413] Suppress 'Permanently added ... to known hosts' when redirecting to /dev/null

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2413

--- Comment #2 from Ben Creasy <ben at bencreasy.com> ---
I see what you mean, and it is true that various workarounds are
suggested at
http://superuser.com/questions/141344/dont-add-hostkey-to-known-hosts-for-ssh/141352#141352.
In terms of what ssh is writing, I would image that ssh can figure out
whether the final output is /dev/null (of course the last thing most
people want is yet another optional switch). In my case I like being
able to have a known_hosts file that has hosts that I expect to connect
to more than once - it feels more organized. 

In my case, I'm sometimes starting up temporary DigitalOcean droplets
for a little while to test something out and then destroying them. I'd
rather not limit my logging or have to mess around with a config file
when I do that.

Is there a way to do this which doesn't require tweaking the config
files but isn't a poor practice?

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