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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# Simple utility to trigger a Repair job on a bunch of hosts.
+#
+# CAVEAT:  no error checking; if any argument isn't a valid
+# host, it will be silently ignored.  If there are no command
+# line arguments, silently succeed.
+
+import sys
+
+import common
+
+from autotest_lib.server import frontend
+
+# For simplicity, we want to do nothing if there are no hosts named
+# on the command line.  That makes it easy to do stuff like this:
+#     dut-status -b $BOARD -p bvt -n | xargs repair_hosts
+#
+# By doing nothing, we get more useful behavior if all the DUTs selected
+# by `dut-status` are actually working.
+#
+# Note that we have to specifically test for an empty host list: I
+# _think_ (but I don't know) that the AFE calls operate on all the
+# hosts if there are no arguments given.  I do know for certain that
+# with hostnames=[], the call takes longer than I was willing to
+# wait.
+
+if len(sys.argv) >= 2:
+    frontend.AFE().repair_hosts(hostnames=sys.argv[1:])