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From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
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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Why don't you create an email alias that points to that file (man aliases
for more info) and then just do:

ls -al | mail -s "Output of ls command" sysadminalias@ourcompany.com

?

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, BSD Freak wrote:

> 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
>
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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