If you use Secure Shell to log into remote Linux servers throughout the day, you should consider using a config file to make your life easier. Here's how.

You could put the name in your /etc/hosts file, or you could set up a local DNS server, but you can also solve this problem using ssh's config file. To create an ssh config file execute the commands: ...

And that’s all there is to creating a script to run a command on multiple hosts defined in your SSH config file.

This is a step-by-step guide on how to compare the contents of local and remote files with the help of SSH. Watch our related video tutorial.