shmux 1.0 review

shmux project is program for executing the same command on many hosts in parallel

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source File size: 79K Developer: Christophe Kalt

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shmux project is program for executing the same command on many hosts in parallel. For each target, a child process is spawned by shmux, and a shell on the target obtained one of the supported methods: rsh, ssh, or sh.

The output produced by the children is received by shmux and either (optionally) output in turn to the user using an easy to read format, or written to files for later processing making it well suited for use in scripts.

Here are some key features of "shmux":
When used in a script:
Ability to define what is and what is not an error for the command being run (based on exit code and output content)
Output and exit codes are saved into files to facilitate use from a script.

When used interactively (directly on the command line, or from within a script/wrapper):
Well formatted output
Standard error output displayed in bold
Real-time status shown
Ability to pause, resume, quit cleanly
Automatically pause on error, allowing the user to cleanly stop before more goes wrong
Ability to hide output of successful targets
Mixed or un-mixed target outputs

Requirements:
PCRE
fping (optional)
Portable OpenSSH (optional)
ssh (optional)

What's New in This Release:
No changes were made since the last beta.