Description:

Mussh is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/shell_script" title="Shell script" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script">shell script that allows you to execute a command or script over ssh on multiple hosts with one command. When possible mussh will use <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/ssh-agent" title="Ssh-agent" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-agent">ssh-agent and RSA/DSA keys to minimize the need to enter your password more than once.

It is a utility for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/system_administrator" title="System administrator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator">system administrators maintaining more than one hosts. The utility will help the admin to execute the same command on multiple hosts with a single command.

Here are few examples:

mussh -H ./linuxhosts -C spfiles/testscript.sh
mussh -c &#8221;cat /etc/hosts&#8221; -h myhost.mydomain.com

Usage:

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