UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Only the content matters and should be that of a simple textfile, not the filename. In Unix/Linux such endings like *.txt only matters for humans reading such names when listing contents of a directory. The system will tell you soon, if the content isn't in the right format.

Best get a list of differences from Windows to *nix!

BTW: When working with Unix/Linux, case matters. ADDRESSES and adresses is not the same! Best read some basic introduction to Unix/Linux because it can help a lot to avoid errors before they happen. I tend to write variable names completely in uppercase.

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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