./ips | xargs -i ./dell-switch.pl {} "show bridge address" ./ips | xargs -i ./dell-switch.pl {} "show interfaces status" ./ips | xargs -i ./dell-switch.pl {} "show running-config" This will save all commands executed to git repository under log/ However, somethimes you just need to execute few commands but don't want log output (if configuring switches in batch, for example). You can do that by setting NO_LOG enviroment variable like this: grep -A 1 sw-lib /etc/munin/munin.conf | grep 10.20 | awk '{ print $2 }' \ | NO_LOG=1 xargs -i ./dell-switch.pl 'snmp-server community public-or-not ro view Default' 'exit' 'copy running-config startup-config' To use fans script first pull show system from all switches: ./ips | xargs -i ./dell-switch.pl {} "show system" Backup switch configuration to tftp server: ./ips 1,2 | awk '{ print "./dell-switch.pl "$1" \"copy startup-config tftp://10.20.0.253/backups/"$2".config\"" }' | NO_LOG=1 sh -x To use snmp* utils, create snmp.conf with: COMMUNITY=my-comminity-or-public