If you administer multiple Linux servers, Jack Wallen has an easy script you can use to run commands on all of those servers at once.

Don’t despair – in those situations, you can run multiple instances of Tomcat on a single GNU/Linux server. Each will use the same binary, but turn to different areas for data.

You can run a series of Linux commands to copy multiple files to a folder or copy a single file to multiple folders, but you can save time and trouble by using xargs, loops and scripts.