scp a file to a known location on servers based on a part entry from /etc/hosts

gistfile1.sh

# function to scp a file to the /home/ec2-user/transfers dir
function scpxfer() {
	file="$1"
	if [ ! -f "$file" ]; then
		echo "Error! Given file $file does not exist! Exiting"
		return 1
	fi

	sshSrvr="$2"
	count=`cat /etc/hosts | grep $sshSrvr | wc -l`
	if [ $count -ne 1 ]; then
		echo "More than one /etc/hosts entry that matches the string" $sshSrvr
		ho $sshSrvr
	else
		srvr=`cat /etc/hosts | grep $sshSrvr | sed -e "s/[[:space:]]\{1,\}/ /g" | cut -f2 -d " "`
		echo "Transferring to $srvr"
		scp "$file" ec2-user@"$srvr":/home/ec2-user/transfers
	fi
}