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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sending mails to various users without hard coding the email IDS Post 302201438 by era on Monday 2nd of June 2008 08:34:37 AM
Old 06-02-2008
Actually if the list isn't very large (hundreds of kilobytes, on many modern platforms) you can just

Code:
(echo "here is the data!" | uuencode datafile datafile) | mail -s "mysubject" `cat addressfile`

If you get "command line too long" errors, then you need to split up the list somehow. Looping over the list one by one is not very elegant, as your mail transport agent can optimize delivery if there are several recipients in the same domain; but it can only do that if you send to them all in one go. (Anyway, if the list is very large and/or very dynamic, you should perhaps look into using a real Mailing List Manager application. GNU mailman seems to be the current popular choice.)
 

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xmark

Xmark(1)						      General Commands Manual							  Xmark(1)

NAME

       Xmark - summarize x11perf results

SYNTAX

       Xmark datafile

DESCRIPTION

       Xmark  is  a  shell  script that reads the indicated datafile and compiles a benchmark which it writes to standard output.  It writes three
       numbers:

	      A weighted performance number for the x11perf results.

	      A weighted performance number for a standard SparcStation 1, with SunOS 4.1.2, X11R5 Xsun, and a CG3 dumb Color Frame Buffer.

	      The Xmark, which is the ratio of the two numbers above.

       The datafile must be an ordinary file, produced by x11perf in the following way:

       x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy GXxor -all > datafile

       It is possible to run the GXcopy and GXxor tests separately, as long as they are concatenated to the same output file:
       x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all > datafile
       x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all >> datafile
       or
       x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all > datafile
       x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all >> datafile

FILES

       temp.$$
	      Temporary file created in the current directory, deleted after use.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Usage: Xmark datafile
	      Xmark was invoked without arguments or with more than one argument, or with options.  Xmark takes no options.

       Error: data file does not exist or is not ordinary.
	      Xmark cannot find the datafile named on its command line, or the datafile is a special file such as a directory.

       WARNING: datafile contains nnn, not 441 or 447 'trep' results;
	      The file named on the command line does not seem to be a file generated by x11perf in the expected way.

       Diagnostic: ERROR: sum of weights =nnn, not equal to 4566.0;
	      There is an internal error in Xmark.

SEE ALSO

       X(7), x11perf(1), x11perfcomp(1)

X Version 11							   x11perf 1.5.4							  Xmark(1)
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