From 33b556cccaacde82aff46480fd4ffe50bdb5e322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Zolliker <markus.zolliker@psi.ch>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 11:04:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add doforall script

execute commands or copy files to different machines in one go
---
 doforall | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 doforall

diff --git a/doforall b/doforall
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0aa93d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doforall
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import sys
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+
+replaces = 'dmc sans hrpt amor focus tasp camea boa eiger zebra sans-llb'
+replace_list = replaces.split()
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    print("""
+Usage examples:
+
+    > ./doforall - dmc hrpt - ssh linse@ALL cd sea ";" git pull
+
+Do the git pull in the sea directory of linse@dmc and linse@hrpt
+
+    > ./doforall scp -r myfolder nicos@ALL:/home/software/blabla
+
+Copy myfolder to the directory /home/software/blabla asking
+for a list of hosts. The default will be a list of instrument
+computers.
+""")
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+
+def replace(cmd, by):
+    return [v.replace('ALL', by) for v in cmd]
+
+
+def do(cmd):
+    out = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE).communicate(timeout=5)[0]
+    return out.decode()
+
+if sys.argv[1] == '-':
+    try:
+        idx = sys.argv[2:].index('-')
+    except ValueError:
+        print('missing "-" indiciating the end of replace list')
+        sys.exit(1)
+    replace_list = sys.argv[2:2+idx]
+    cmd = sys.argv[2:idx+1:]
+else:
+    cmd = sys.argv[1:]
+    print('replace list:')
+    print(replaces)
+    print(' ')
+    print('the first command will be:')
+    print(f"> {' '.join(replace(cmd, replace_list[0]))}\n") 
+    repl = input('press return to confirm above replace list or enter a new one: ').split()
+    if repl:
+        replace_list = repl
+
+for value in replace_list:
+    this = replace(cmd, value)
+    print('>', ' '.join(this))
+    print(do(this))
+