Last Updated: February 25, 2016

SSH to many hosts and broadcast input with iTerm

Want a way to broadcast output to a ton of hosts at once?

Want to do it in the worst possible way? Well here's your apple script.

set hostList to {"jsl1", "jsl2", "jsl3", "jsl4", "jsl5", "jsl6", "jsl7", "jsl8"} as list

tell application "iTerm"
 activate
 set myTerm to (make new terminal)
 tell myTerm
 repeat with hostItem in hostList
 set Lsession to (launch session "Default Session")
 tell Lsession
 write text "ssh " & hostItem
 end tell
 end repeat
 end tell
end tell

tell application "System Events"
 tell process "iTerm"
 keystroke "I" using {command down}
 end tell
end tell

#ssh

#applescript

#iterm