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PARALLEL-SCP(1) PARALLEL-SCP(1)

NAME

parallel-scp - parallel versions of scp

SYNOPSIS

parallel-scp [OPTIONS] -h hosts.txt local remote
 

DESCRIPTION

pssh provides a number of commands for executing against a group of computers, using SSH. It´s most useful for operating on clusters of homogenously-configured hosts.
 
parallel-scp copy files in parallel to a set of machines.
 

OPTIONS

-r --recursive
recusively copy directories (OPTIONAL)
-h --hosts
hosts file (each line "host[:port] [user]")
-l --user
username (OPTIONAL)
-p --par
max number of parallel threads (OPTIONAL)
-o --outdir
output directory for stdout files (OPTIONAL)
-e --errdir
output directory for stderr files (OPTIONAL)
-t --timeout
timeout (secs) (-1 = no timeout) per host (OPTIONAL)
-O --options
SSH options (OPTIONAL)
-v --verbose
turn on warning and diagnostic messages (OPTIONAL)

EXAMPLE

The following example runs hostname on three machines (IPs or hostnames) specified in the file ips.txt using login irb2 and saves the output in /tmp/foo.
 
# parallel-scp -h ips.txt -l irb2 /etc/hosts /tmp/hosts
Success on 128.112.152.122:22
Success on 18.31.0.190:22
Success on 128.232.103.201:22

ENVIRONMENT

All four programs take similar sets of options. All of these options can be set using the following environment variables:
 
 
•PSSH_HOSTS
•PSSH_USER
•PSSH_PAR
•PSSH_OUTDIR
•PSSH_VERBOSE
•PSSH_OPTIONS

SEE ALSO

parallel-ssh(1), parallel-slurp(1), parallel-nuke(1), parallel-rsync(1), ssh(1), scp(1),
 

AUTHOR

Brent N. Chun <bnc@theether.org>
 

COPYING

Copyright: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Brent N. Chun
 

NOTES

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03/30/2009