SEX! or, how do I mail to a lot of unix users?

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <JASON.90May31163242 at aelle.cs.odu.edu>, jason at cs (Jason C Austin) writes:
| #!/bin/sh
| 
| users=`cat user-list`
| 
| for user in $users
|  do
|   echo "Mailing $user"
|   mail $user < message
|  done


Too many processes.  If you want progress reporting, say:

while read user
do
	echo "Mailing $user"
	mail $user <message
done <user-list

If not, try:

mail `cat user-list` <message

Simple.

Just another mail admin,
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