Need to use scp in a shell script

Thaidog · 04-02-2011, 10:03 PM

I need to push out a file to a bunch of linux and solaris boxes so I was hoping to use a script to automate the process with scp (or something else / better) - how can I batchmode scp so that it will do this? I should mention the servers do have keys set up so I do not have to authenticate manually or through something like an expect script... any ideas?

paulsm4 · 04-02-2011, 11:03 PM

Something like this:

Code:

  for s in $SERVERS; do
    scp *.txt user@$s:/some/folder
  done

harry edwards · 04-03-2011, 03:28 AM

You will also need to consider SSH key authentication e.g.http://www.petefreitag.com/item/532.cfm

Thaidog · 04-03-2011, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulsm4

Something like this:

Code:

  for s in $SERVERS; do
    scp *.txt user@$s:/some/folder
  done

I've got the following shell script:

#!/bin/ksh

for i in `cat eracent_oracle.txt | grep hostname | awk '{print $1}'`; do scp -v
LNR_ClientsInstaller_S_EPA_Linux_64 root@$i:/; echo $i; done

I get no output from the script at all... not sure what I am missing

(fyi i I already have SSH keys ssetup)

EDIT:
Never mind I misspelled hostname in my server file lol!

szboardstretcher · 04-04-2011, 03:10 PM

This is a small script to "fanout" commands to multiple servers.

http://www.stearns.org/fanout/fanout

Hope this helps.