NAME

       parallel-slurp - copy files from listed hosts

SYNOPSIS

       parallel-slurp [OPTIONS] -h hosts.txt -L destdir remote local

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-slurp gathers specified files from hosts you listed.

OPTIONS

       -r --recursive
           recusively copy directories (OPTIONAL)

       -L --localdir
           output directory for remote file copies

       -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

       An example to copy /home/irb2/foo.txt from each host. Files gathered will be stored in
       /tmp/outdir/hostname/foo.txt.

           # prallel-slurp -h hosts.txt -L /tmp/outdir -l irb2 \
                    /home/irb2/foo.txt foo.txt

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

AUTHOR

       Brent N. Chun <bnc@theether.org>

COPYING

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

NOTES

        1. bnc@theether.org
           mailto:bnc@theether.org

                                            03/30/2009                          PARALLEL-SLURP(1)