Stacki Documentation

iterate host

Usage

stack iterate host [host ...] {command=string}

Description

Iterate sequentially over a list of hosts.  This is used to run 
a shell command on the frontend with with '%' wildcard expansion for
every host specified.

Arguments

• {host}

  Zero, one or more host names. If no host names are supplied iterate over all hosts except the frontend.

Parameters

• [command=string]

  The shell command to be run for each host. The ‘%’ character is used as a wildcard to indicate the hostname. Quoting of the ‘%’ to expand to a literal is accomplished with ‘%%’.

Examples

• stack iterate host backend command="scp file %:/tmp/"

  Copies file to the /tmp directory of every backend node