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+#!/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;