Bash: How to copy a file to multiple SSH servers all of which are specified in a list text file?

Question

I have a file (lets say "thisfile.sh" for example) I would like to copy to multiple servers (of which some may require password authentication) at once upon launching my bash file, presumedly with SCP. All the server addresses are written one line at a time in a text document, lets say the file's called "ServerList", for example:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[...]

How can I achieve this?

Edit: I thought about this a little more, and I'd still like to get this done with bash as a starter, I'll use an alternative a little later. How'd I suppose I'd get it done is by using the SCP copy command, and a variable in place of my destination, a little something like this scp myfile $Server:~/myfile. This way, I'm pretty sure I will need to use a Loop of some sort, so it would go through all the lines as I copy it.

Solution

If you want to stay in bash-only domain:

while read server
    scp thisfile.sh $server:/some/location
    ssh $server /some/location/thisfile.sh
done < servers.txt

This will prompt execute one work at a time, and ask you for authentication when needed

Comments

[Hewbot]

Do you want to write the passwords manually? Is the destiny directory always the same?

[Hewbot]

I just deleted my answer since yours is the same but more complete ;)