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can anyone knows how to reboot computer in just one line code of bash (by looping itself). The details will be get from the text file which are the IP Address of each computer. When the script gets the IP address of the computer it will go in and reboot it. HOw can I do it.

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Option 1# Using for loop 

for host in $(< inputfile.txt );
do 

    ssh $host shutdown -r now 

done

Option 2# Using xargs 

xargs -n1 -I{} echo ssh {} shutdown -r now  < inputfile.txt

Note: You need SSH Password less login or it will ask password for each host which is listed in inputfile

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