Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello there,

I have a file that contents a list of email address, and each is separated by new lines. I want to read the first email address into TO: filed and the rest into a list and goes to cc field. I plan to use mailx to send the email. I inserted the email addresses into an array, but what can I do to turn the array into a list, so I can pass it to mailx command? The script is working, but it prints list of cc one by one. That won't work for mailx since I need all of them in a list. Thanks!

#read email address line by line, the first line always goes to TO field
fname="/home/.../emailFile.txt"
cc[100]="" #list of cc receipients

exec<$fname
value=0

while read line
do
value=`expr $value + 1`;
if [ $value -eq 1 ]
then
headit=$line
echo "headit email is: $headit" #receipient email address, always the first line in the file
else
cc[$value]=$line
echo "it contacts email: ${cc[$value]}"
fi
done

#mailx command to send email with a text body, attachment, cc, bcc, and replying address,
echo "test" | cat - body.txt | mailx -a attachment.html -b "bcc@mail.com" -c "$cc" -s "test" -r "reply@mail.com" "$headit"

Use [ code ] and [ /code ] tags when posting logs, code etc., ty.

Code:

root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> cat infile
a@some.net
b@some.net
c@some.net
d@some.net
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> V_TO=`head -1 infile`
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> echo $V_TO
a@some.net
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> V_CC=`awk 'NR > 1 {print}' infile`
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> echo $V_CC
b@some.net c@some.net d@some.net

When using the variables, maybe use "${VAR}" to make sure you get no troubles.

Hi,

to read all emails into an array:

Code:

email=( $(cat file) )

Code:

TO=$email[1]

to convert the array to a list:

Code:

CC=$(for i in {2..${#email[@]}}; do printf "%s " ${email[$i]}; done)

Which iterates over the array starting at position 2 for the length of the array, the it prints the current array followed by a space but no line break. The result is passed to the variable CC. Now you have the TO in $TO and the CC in $CC.

HTH

Chris

Hi,

there is a small error in there. It has to be:

cc=$(for i in {2..${#email[@]}}; do printf "%s, " ${email[$i]}; done

The comma was missing as you need a comma separated list of repicipients.

I don't use mailx but mutt. The following line does the trick for me:

echo test | mutt -s test -c "$cc" -- $to

HTH Chris

Thanks for everyone's posts. I really appreciate it. Chris's code has not worked for me though, this is the output:

someone@mail.com[1]
{2..2}: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "{2..2}") #maybe because I only have two email address in the file. It is possible that the file only contents 1 or 2 email addresses.

Zaxxon's code worked for me. Thanks again for all the inputs.