my @commands = ( { name => 'command_name1', user => 'user1', host => 'server1.foo.com', command => 'rsync_command yadda yadda' }, { name => 'command_name2', user => 'user2', host => 'server2.foo.com', command => 'rsync_command yadda yadda' } ); for my $cmd (@commands) { if ($state->{status} eq 'success') { my $cmd_status = ops_do_ssh_shell($cmd); if ( (!defined $cmd_status->{cmd_ret_code}) or ($cmd_status->{cmd_ret_code} != 0) ) { $state->{status} = 'failure'; $state->{stack_trace} = $cmd_status; } } }