Some application may need to copy files to all the servers. These files could either be data files or they could be configuration files needed by the application or they could be jar files (that don't have functions but have say, spring data geode jar files) that need to be on the server's classpath. We could accomplish this by enhancing the current gfsh "deploy" command to accept any kind of file and write it to the servers file system OR create a new gfsh "copy" command to copy any arbitrary file to the servers. I would personally like to repurpose the deploy command but would like to hear the community's opinion.
Thanks!