Dear Friends

I want to, auto send mail to users on there Birthdate, using following script but while executing getting following error pls. suggest me for the same.


Script :-

#!/bin/sh
data_file="/var/SCRIPTS/Birthday/data"
email_file="/var/SCRIPTS/Birthday/birthday.email"
today_month=`date +%m`
today_day=`date +%d`
today_date="$today_month,$today_day"
all_friends="$(grep -v '^#' $data_file | grep $today_date)"
for friend in $all_friends
do
email_addr=`$(echo $friend | cut -d , -f 5)`
if [ -z $email_addr ]; then
continue
fi
first_name="$(echo $friend | cut -d , -f 1)"
last_name="$(echo $friend | cut -d , -f 2)"
full_name="$first_name $last_name"
sed "s/__FULLNAME__/$full_name/g"$email_file | \
echo "mail -s "Happy birthday to you.." $email_addr"
done
exit 0

Error O/p :-

: command not founde 1: mailadmin@xyz.com
: command not founde 1: sysadmin@xyz.com



Data file :-
First Name, Last Name, Month, Date, Mail ID

XYZ,x,06,13,mailadmin@xyz.com
ABC,S,07,13,sysadmin@xyz.com
PQRj,sh,2,12,PQR@gmail.com

Email File :-

Dear __FULLNAME__:

Happy Birthday To You.

Best Regards,
XYZ

This command:
email_addr=`$(echo $friend | cut -d , -f 5)`
should be
email_addr=$(echo $friend | cut -d , -f 5)

[At least, I had an error when evaluating that command.]

I also eliminated " around a couple of other commands, resulting in following:

data_file="bdata"
#email_file="/var/SCRIPTS/Birthday/birthday.email"
today_month=`date +%m`
today_day=`date +%d`
today_date="$today_month,$today_day"
all_friends="$(grep -v '^#' $data_file | grep $today_date)"
for friend in $all_friends
   do
   email_addr=$(echo $friend | cut -d , -f 5)
   if [ -z $email_addr ]; then
      continue
   fi
   first_name=$(echo $friend | cut -d , -f 1)
   last_name=$(echo $friend | cut -d , -f 2)
   full_name="$first_name $last_name"

   echo "$full_name" "$email_addr"

#   sed "s/__FULLNAME__/$full_name/g"$email_file | \
#   echo "mail -s "Happy birthday to you.." $email_addr"
done
exit 0

> chk_bd 
XYZ x mailadmin@xyz.com