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Old 03-06-2004, 08:19 AM   #1
Cruger
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bash script to send mail


Hi I'm trying to send the same letter to several users in the same maibox..
Is there a way I can write a script that makes the letter to close istself (and I don't have to add message and press Cnrl-D) ?

script so far:

mail -s Welcome user@mailbox
 
Old 03-06-2004, 08:25 AM   #2
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Assuming user.list contains the list of users and letter is the letter.

#!/bin/bash
cat user.list|while read user
do
cat letter|mail -s "subject" $user
done
exit
 
  


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