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Old 04-26-2013
ksh shell scripting to copy a file
Hi. I am a new Unix admin and I've been tasked to write a ksh script that copies my .profile into my /home directory on all servers. I'm new to this and having a difficult time scripting it. Any ideas?
Last edited by joeyg; 04-26-2013 at 12:54 PM..
# 2  
Old 04-26-2013
What have you tried?
# 3  
Old 04-26-2013
I've copied all of the host names into hosts.txt. I need the script to call out to hosts.txt and copy my profile into the home directory of all servers in hosts.txt

Code:
if ['echo $host' = "hosts.txt"]
then
sftp .profile /home/directory
while read "hosts.txt
sftp .profile /home/directory
fi

# 4  
Old 04-26-2013
what is this 'echo $host' supposed to do?

For copying single files like this, scp looks more appropriate than sftp. Use it like [icode]sftp /path/to/localfile username@host:/path/to/remotefile[icode]

Code:
while read HOSTNAME
do
        scp .profile $HOSTNAME:
done < hosts.txt

# 5  
Old 04-26-2013
echo the hostname and match it to hosts.txt
# 6  
Old 04-26-2013
Oh, so you want to avoid the host copying to itself...

Code:
while read HOST
do
        [ "$HOSTNAME" = "$HOST" ] && continue
        scp .profile $HOST:
done < hosts.txt

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# 7  
Old 04-26-2013
Yes. I want to avoid the host copying to itself. I do need the .profile in my /home/directory.
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