Running script on remote systems

Instead of copying script to all systems, say 200, to run, following will make things easier.

1. Running script without argument on remote systems
ssh user@remote /bin/bash < scriptname.sh

2. Running script with arguments on remote systems.
runremote.sh user remote scriptname.sh -arguments

runremote.sh is shown below.

#!/bin/bash

# runremote.sh (revised, not dependent upon /dev/stdin)

# usage: runremote.sh remoteuser remotehost localscript arg1 arg2 ...

if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then

        echo "Usage: $0 remoteuser remotehost localscript arg1 arg2 ..."

        exit

fi

realscript=$3

user=$1

host=$2

shift 3

# escape the arguments

declare -a args

count=0

for arg in "$@"; do

  args[count]=$(printf '%q' "$arg")

  count=$((count+1))

done

{

  printf '%s\n' "set -- ${args[*]}"

  cat "$realscript"

} | ssh $user@$host "bash -s"

Details see  http://backreference.org/2011/08/10/running-local-script-remotely-with-arguments/