hi
I am having a shell script that will send the report as an attachment to the number of receipients.
There are chances that these receipients keep on chaging frequently. So I was thinking of some way by which I need not hard code the receipients in the shell script. Instead if i can put them into a file and read the file to get names of receipients . but not able to achive this in shell script. It will of great help for me if somebody can help me with code. ( I am pretty new to shell scripts)

Many thanks

You can try creating (or adding to, if you have one) a .mailrc file in which you may define mail groups.

try this,

for the frequently changing address entries you can have it in a file
and for any future changes you can just change the file entry :<mail.address.entries>
you neednt revisit the script

to send a particular file as body of the mail
to send a particular file as attachment

thanks for the solution.
have another doubt how do i list the receipients names in the address file?
whether they should be comma separated or semi colon or something else ?

a simple file listing like this with each address entries in a line
would do

>cat mail.address
abc@xyz.com
eft@erg.com
afhs@ert.com
>

hi
here is my address file
> cat mail.address
abc@gmail.com
xyz@mailserver.com

===
script code
==
> cat mail.sh
#!/bin/ksh
SPOOLFILE=pk_comp_tools.sh
echo "Send the E-mail message..."
mail -s "$SUBJECT" "`cat mail.address`" <<EOF
Please find the report attached.
`cat $SPOOLFILE | uuencode $SPOOLFILE`
EOF
==
==
this is sending mail to only first address and second address is being displayed as part of mail body. I tried giving the address in "mail.address" by separating them using comma. but still the mail is going to first person only.

i have modified ur script ...

and use mailx
please try this and let me know