Had to perform the same job on a bunch of nodes. ClusterSSH[1] is what
 people usually use to do this job. I didn't  have  it  available,  but
 dvtm[2] was.

 When  run as "DVTM_TERM=xterm dvtm" (dvtm's terminfo was not installed
 on those nodes), dvtm does a pretty good job at multiplexing input  to
 multiple  nodes:  Each  keystroke is sent to each node simultaneously.
 Plus, my knowledge of ed(1) came in handy (once more).

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 1. http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/413853:managing-multiple-linux-servers-with-clusterssh

 2. http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/