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From: Zach Thompson <cublai@lastamericanempire.com>
To: Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com>
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Subject: Re: More of a scripting question I guess.
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* Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com> [020417 20:03]::
 > I've got a list of e-mail addresses in a text file.  I'd like to
 > process a command on EACH of those addresses with a program on my BSD
 > box.  I don't know a lick or two or shell programming (I'd think you
 > can get it done with this).

 perl -nle '`some_command`' email.txt

 Depending on the command(s), there may be a Perl builtin instead of
 backticking.

 Zach Thompson

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