I have had people ask for hostgroups, so you could do: parallel --nonall -S @webservers uptime
or similar. I am considering how that could be implemented. Maybe introduce ~/.parallel/groups: @group sshlogin1 sep sshlogin2 sep sshlogin3 sep should be a separator, that will never be in an sshlogin - maybe ; Maybe it should be possible to do: parallel --nonall -S @*.example.com uptime which would run uptime on all servers matching .example.com listed in the default sshloginfile. Maybe there are already tools that have the group concept with a syntax that would easy to use? If it was done, how would you like to see it done? /Ole