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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:02:22 +0100
From:      Alex Dyas <ADyas@twowaytv.com>
To:        BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Shell scripting gurus I nedd your help
Message-ID:  <911D8F660DF6D411B61F00500462BA01CC7C06@exchange.twowaytv.co.uk>

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$ for address in `cat admins.txt`;do ls -al | mail -s "Ouput of ls command"
$address;done

alex..

> 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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