SCP mutliple hosts with same filename

hvc123 · 06-15-2020, 05:29 AM

HI all

can anyone help with the scp variables or maybe even a bash script ?

im trying to scp to multiple cisco devices and pull their running-config i then need to output them to the host name rather than just running-config as the file name.

i thought there maybe a wildcard for host name is available but i cant see it..

thanks

ehartman · 06-15-2020, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hvc123

i thought there maybe a wildcard for host name is available but i cant see it..

scp conforms to the cp syntax, so it has got only a single "destination", after optionally expanding wildcards: the last argument in the resulting commandline.
So you would need either multiple scp lines, just varying the destination host/path or maybe this is better suited to a program like rdist:

Quote:

Rdist is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possible and can update programs that are executing. Rdist reads commands from distfile to direct the updating of files and/or directories.

pan64 · 06-15-2020, 08:59 AM

Do you mean something like this?

Code:

for a_host in ${HOSTNAME_LIST[@]}
do
    scp whatever $a_host
done

hvc123 · 06-15-2020, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

Do you mean something like this?

Code:

for a_host in ${HOSTNAME_LIST[@]}
do
    scp whatever $a_host
done

yes definitely something like this ,,, Thank you

whats the [@] for ?

berndbausch · 06-15-2020, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hvc123

im trying to scp to multiple cisco devices and pull their running-config i then need to output them to the host name rather than just running-config as the file name.

i thought there maybe a wildcard for host name is available but i cant see it..

You want to copy the running-config (whatever that is

) from multiple cisco devices. What do you mean by host name? The names of the devices? If so:

Code:

for NAME in name1 name2 name3 ....
do
    scp account@$NAME:running-config $NAME
done

Your mission, should you decide to accept it: Replace "name1 name2 name3 ..." with the actual names, fix the source of the scp command, because I have no idea where running-config might be located, and replace "account" with the correct user account.