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

[Andrew Cunningham]

In article <11990 at encore.Encore.COM> jdarcy at zelig.encore.com (Mostly Harmless) writes:
>thermal%solgel.hepnet at CSA2.LBL.GOV:
>> I would like to be able to send a mail message to all the users on
>
>The simplest way I can think of is:
>
>    mail `awk -F: '{print $1;}' < /etc/passwd`
>

If all users home directories are in the same place (e.g. /users/ac1,
/users/someone, /users/foo etc)   then you can do

		cd /users; mail *

At worst you might have to do this two or three times to get all users on the
whole system.  Remember that there will be a copy made of the message for EVERY
user you send it to - which could amount to a lot of disk space!


AndyC



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