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From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Shell scripting gurus I nedd your help
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On 2001-07-19, BSD Freak scribbled:

# Here's one for the shell scripting gurus:
#
# I have a file (admins.txt) with list of the e-mail addresses of my
# systems administrators (on per line) eg.
#
# john@ourcompnay.com
# fred@ourcompany.com
# betty@ourcompany.com
# ...
# ...etc
#
#
# I need to be able to e-mail them all the same message from the command
# line or a shell script (with only one command)
#
# For example I might need to email them the output of an "ls -al". I
# could:
#
# ls -al | mail -s "Ouput of ls command" john@ourcompnay.com
# ls -al | mail -s "Ouput of ls command" fred@ourcompnay.com
# ls -al | mail -s "Ouput of ls command" betty@ourcompnay.com
# ...
# .etc..
#
# how can I do this with only one command taking each persons e-mail
# address from the file admins.txt

If you reformatted the file (or use Perl) so that each name is separated
by a comma and a space, then you can do something like:

ls -al | mail -s "Output" `cat admins.txt`

Dunno if or how well it would work...

-- 
Linh Pham
[lplist@closedsrc.org]

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