Shell Programming and Scripting

have a script that copies a file to a bunch of hosts. works great with a single file. How do I make it copy all files in a source directory? or a *txt pattern, or anything using a * ???

name of script: cp2all
#!/bin/csh
foreach host ( host1 host2 host3 host4 host5 host6 host7)
rcp $argv[1] $host\:$argv[2]
end


i usually run the script to copy a single file like this
./cp2all test1.txt /home/ajp
this will copy test1.txt to /home/ajp on all the hosts listed in foreach.

I want to copy all files in a directory, but using * doesnt seem to work. How would I do this??

Thank you as always!!

Hi.

One way:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env tcsh

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate foreach processing of filename list.

echo
echo "(Versions displayed with local utility version)"
sh -c "version >/dev/null 2>&1" && version =o tcsh
echo

touch t1 t2 t3
set files = ( `ls -1` )

foreach file ( $files )
  echo " variable file is $file"
end

Producing:

Code:

% ./s1

(Versions displayed with local utility version)
Linux 2.6.11-x1
tcsh 6.13.00

 variable file is s1
 variable file is t1
 variable file is t2
 variable file is t3

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

Standard advice: avoid csh family shells for scripting, use Bourne family shells instead.