Hi Guys, I've written a simple for loop see below: for i in orion earth;do scp /etc/hosts /etc;done I have a small scripting knowledge so would appreciate some help. What I'd like to do is somehow change the above so that the script prompts me for a password and when I give the script the password it will use it to auto-reply to any password promtps that scp asks for when logging into all the servers. If I am right I believe readline needs to be used. If it can't be done in bash can you give me a perl alternative please. Thanks for your help. Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines