diff --git a/xCAT-client/bin/xcatosdistro b/xCAT-client/bin/xcatosdistro
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index bd2b06f2e..000000000
--- a/xCAT-client/bin/xcatosdistro
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env perl
-# IBM(c) 2007 EPL license http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
-
-# Used as a standard client cmd that can be used for many of the xcat cmds.
-# It grabs the arguments, noderange, and stdin and then submits the request to
-# xcatd and waits for responses.  Most of the client/server communication is
-# contained in Client.pm.
-
-# To use this, sym link your cmd name to this script.
-
-BEGIN { $::XCATROOT = $ENV{'XCATROOT'} ? $ENV{'XCATROOT'} : -d '/opt/xcat' ? '/opt/xcat' : '/usr'; }
-use lib "$::XCATROOT/lib/perl";
-use Cwd;
-#use IO::Socket::SSL;
-#use IO::Socket::INET;
-use File::Basename;
-#use Data::Dumper;
-use xCAT::Client;
-use strict;
-my $bname = basename($0);
-my $cmdref;
-if ($bname =~ /xcatosdistro/) { $cmdref->{command}->[0]=shift @ARGV; }  # xcatclient was invoked directly and the 1st arg is cmd name that is used to locate the plugin
-else { $cmdref->{command}->[0] = $bname; }        # the cmd was sym linked to xcatclient
-$cmdref->{cwd}->[0] = cwd();
-
-my $data;
-# allows our plugins to get the stdin of the cmd that invoked the plugin
-if ( (($^O =~ /^linux/i) && ($ENV{'SHELL'} =~ /\/ksh$/))  || !defined($ENV{'TERM'}) )
-{
-    my $rin="";
-    my $rout;
-    vec($rin,fileno(STDIN),1)=1;
-    my $nfound=select($rout=$rin,"","",1);
-    if ($nfound)
-    {
-        while ( <STDIN> ) { $data.=$_; }
-        $cmdref->{stdin}->[0]=$data;
-    }
-}
-else
-{
-    if (-p STDIN) {
-        while ( <STDIN> ) { $data.=$_; }
-        $cmdref->{stdin}->[0]=$data;
-    }
-}
-
-
-
-push (@{$cmdref->{arg}}, @ARGV);
-foreach (keys %ENV) {
-    if (/^XCAT_/) {
-        $cmdref->{environment}->{$_} = $ENV{$_};
-    }
-}
-
-xCAT::Client::submit_request($cmdref,\&xCAT::Client::handle_response);
-exit $xCAT::Client::EXITCODE;