It may seem weird asking this in what's clearly a linux forum, but i feel the need to ask this since here has the most knowledgeable people and i'd be accessing linux machines over ssh.

Konsole has the option to send input to all sessions, where what you type in one of the tabs is sent to all of them. Once I found this out it basically changed my life, as far as the rate at which things get done is concerned. I hear clusterssh's primary purpose is to do this as well. Perhaps someone could let me know how much better one is over the other.

My question is, has anyone ever heard of a windows ssh client that has this feature? The only ssh clients i've used on windows are putty and poderosa. I like poderosa better because it has tabs and ability to split windows ala konsole in kde4, but i can't find a feature like that anywhere.

If you installed an Xserver (such as http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming) on your Windows server, then SSH into the linux server (with X11 forwarding turned on), you can start konsole and have it run on your Windows screen.

that seems like a lot of work for that, having another machine running that is. as you mention it though perhaps possible to get konsole running with cygwin and run it from there? I don't know but heard there are kde libraries that are compiled for use with cygwin

I guess I don't fully understand your question. You are asking about an ssh client for Windows. SSH implies that you already have a remote server you are going to connect to. Konsole, is not an ssh client, it's simply was window to a shell on the local machine. If that is what you are looking for on Windows, then Cygwin might do what your looking for.

What is it you are using the send input to all sessions for? There might be others ways of doing such as named pipes, the tee command, etc.

Same to me

There is a nice shell script to execute the same command on various systems with ssh. Maybe that's what you're looking for.

forgive me but i'm a bit of a newbie. i've had to run similar commands on multiple machines, so i'd open up multiple tabs, turn on that option on one tab, and just run commands in that one tab for as long as is feasible, only switching to the other tabs when there are slight differences in a command that i'm entering. don't know how clunky it is, because i'm not skilled enough with the scripting to have tried it or anything else that would be better. I will look into it though. As weird as it sounds however doing the multiple tabs thing still gets me to finish things quicker. someone asked me if they knew of that feature in a windows program. I told them about running it in a windows x server.

cli automation with "expect" may be the answer

http://www.linux.com/feature/128384

I know I am digging up an old thread but I am looking for something like this too. I am forced to use windows at work otherwise I would run something like PSSH (parallel SSH) or Clusterssh.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/parall...execution.html
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/551

Glad I didn't post till I found it and here it is
http://www.millardsoftware.com/puttycs
It works pretty well, it does occasionally miss a key on one of the putty windows, and it doesn't have autocomplete, but it is a good enough solution.

thanks. i gave on looking for something like this.

I know this thread is old, but I got here via google so others might too.

As well as the answer from changlinn, another alternative is Multisend:

• Information about it can be found here: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/...p?topic=4382.0
• Be sure to download the newest version available from here: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/...php?topic=3461

It works by allowing you to select multiple windows to send the input to, then popping up an input field to send it to each window.

hate to reply to resurrected threads, but puttycm is a wrapper for putty which does exactly this, amongst other useful things.