distribute_boinc.sh

#!/usr/bin/bash

# usage: ./distribute_boinc

# this cannot use ./mass_cmd because it does a `scp` from the LOCAL directory,
# and why make scp'ing more complicated by asking to copy the file from local to remote with a remote ssh command?

# path that is per-computer
COMP_PATH='/localdisk/boinc';

#---

computers='names of computers separated by space'

for C in $computers
do
    echo "Distributing to $C:"
    ssh $C "mkdir -p $COMP_PATH"
    # make sure only boinc, boinccmd, and boinc_client are the binaries starting with boinc*
    scp boinc* $C:$COMP_PATH
done