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Problem to automate the change password

Hi.

I know how to get new password from input file which have till Dec 2014 passwords with today's date, i want to change my password everyday for which i know how to set cron job that will run everyday in morning. once it is changed it should e-mail me if it successful or not.

Can someone please provide some advise on it.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
CWD=/home/John/Password
cd $CWD
(grep "`date +"%d-%b"`" abc.txt) > /home//John/Password/dateout.txt

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