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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# 2010-2011 Nico Schottelius (nico-cdist at schottelius.org)
+#
+# This file is part of cdist.
+#
+# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+#
+# Transfer all executables
+#
+
+. cdist-config
+[ $# -eq 2 ] || __cdist_usage "<target host> <remote bin dir>"
+set -eu
+
+__cdist_target_host="$1"; shift
+__cdist_my_remote_out_dir="$1"; shift
+
+# Find directory that contains cdist binaries
+__cdist_conf_dir_path=$(which cdist-config)
+__cdist_src_base=${__cdist_conf_dir_path%config}
+
+# Help the user
+echo "Transferring cdist binaries ..."
+
+# re-create basedir so it's clean
+ssh "${__cdist_remote_user}@${__cdist_target_host}" \
+   "rm -rf \"${__cdist_my_remote_out_dir}\" && mkdir -p \"${__cdist_my_remote_out_dir}\""
+
+# Transfer cdist-* to the remote host
+scp -qr "${__cdist_src_base}"* \
+       "${__cdist_remote_user}@${__cdist_target_host}:${__cdist_my_remote_out_dir}"
+
+# Adjust cdist-config to contain static version string
+tmp_version="$__cdist_version"
+sed "s/^: \${\(__cdist_version\):=.*/\1=\"$tmp_version\"/" "$(which cdist-config)" | \
+   ssh -q "${__cdist_remote_user}@${__cdist_target_host}"                     \
+      "cat > \"${__cdist_my_remote_out_dir}\"/cdist-config"
+