Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello folks. I need to create a script that looks at a certain output (list of full paths of files) and gets the owner's name (2nd position in the path, for example: /dirA/jsmith/blah1/more_blah/still_blah... etc)
Gets the jsmith and greps the related file for jsmith and send that output to jsmith, and moves to the next.

Problem: The output may contain each file listing by jsmith, and I do not want jsmith to get 100 emails (even though he deserves it, LOL).

The output is basically a monitoring list that looks at users saving files where they should not, and I would like for them to get an email automatically ...

I am sure I am making this too complicated...so any idea?

something like this should get you started - not tested.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

# file with "list of full paths of files"
inputFile='/tmp/sas.lst'

\rm -rf /tmp/mail.* 2> /dev/null

while read file
do
   user=$(echo ${file} | nawk -F'/' -v FLDuser=3 '{print $FLDuser}')
   grep "${user}" "${file}" >> "/tmp/mail.${user}.txt"
done < "${inputFile}"

for iter in /tmp/mail.*
do
   user=$(echo ${iter} | nawk -F'.' -v FLDuser=2 '{print $FLDuser}')
   mailx -s 'Subject here' "${user}" < "${iter}"
   \rm -rf "${iter}"
done