In article <1180405184.971791.263810@o11g2000prd.googlegroups .com>,
merrittr <merrittr@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to get the script below to mail out 1 email to each person
> logged in however:
>
> finger gives
> bash-3.1$ finger
> Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office
> Office Phone
> rwm132 Robert Wesley Merritt pts/0 May 28 18:51
> (reif.usask.ca)
> rwm132 Robert Wesley Merritt *pts/1 51d May 24 18:53
> (reif.usask.ca)
> rwm132 Robert Wesley Merritt *pts/5 51d May 25 08:28
> (reif.usask.ca)
> rwm132 Robert Wesley Merritt *pts/2 51d May 25 11:00
> (reif.usask.ca)
> so I only want to send onee email, any ideas how i do that
>
>
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> allnsid=""
> finger | awk '{print $1} {print $2} {print $4}'|while read nsid
> do
> read fn
> read ln
> allnsid="$allnsid $nsid"
> echo "hello $fn $ln" >> $nsid.txt
> echo "please" >> $nsid.txt
> echo "lof off " >> $nsid.txt
> echo "the" >> $nsid.txt
> echo "machine" >> $nsid.txt
> #mail -s logoff $nsid@mail.usask.ca < $nsid.txt
>
> case $allnsid in
> *$nsid*)
> echo "mailing to $nsid $fn $ln"
> ;;
> esac
>
> echo $allnsid
> done

finger | awk '{fullname[$1]=$2 " " $4 }
END {for (id in fullname) print id, fullname[id]}' | \
while read nsid fn ln
do
mail -s logoff $nsid@mail.usask.ca <<EOF
hello $fn $ln
please
log off
the
machine
EOF
done

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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