Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey all, been so long since I've done any KSH scriptting, I've forgotten exact sytax. 2 things,
1) I need to dot in an environment file that is a list of server names
2) I need to loop through though server names in a while loop, or until loop.
Here's roughly what I have and trying to hammer out the syntax:

# While not the end of the servers list, go through and copy
# $1 to $2
while [[ ! EOF ]]; do

scp user@server:/$1 user@server_from_list:/$2
done
exit 1

$1 would be the file I want to distribute
$2 is where I want it to go on the remote filesystem

ie.
$ ./dist .profile ~user/
This would distribute my profile to the entire list of servers in the .servers file...
I'd do it by hand, but we're talking a list of 200+ servers.

Thanks!
JP

It sounds like you want to loop through a file...

Code:

exec < inputfile
while read servername ; do
       echo name = $servername
done

Here's what I ended up doing:

if [[ -e $1 ]]; then
cat .servers | while read LINE; do

scp $1 root@$LINE:$2
done
else
echo " "
echo "$1 does not exist"
echo " "
fi