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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Chris Shenton <chris@absinthe.i3inc.com>
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Subject: Re: Script to send mail to all users?
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Chris Shenton wrote:

> I'm looking for a script to send mail to all users in my /etc/passwd
> file; anyone got one? I'd rather plagiarize than write from scratch. :-)

Well, you could start with something like:

awk -F ':' \
  '{print "/bin/Mailmail -s \"Daily Bulletin \" " $1 \
   " < /tmp/bulletin.txt"}' | sh

But that would start a new mail process for each user.

Danny