Re: send to group functionality ?

[David L. Nicol]

 
  Is there an easy way to just send to all users in a linux group,
  instead of having to use an alias file?


You mean group, as in, a line in /etc/group, right?

Lets say I have a message in a file called syl2000fall.txt and
I want to send it to everyone in the group called chem507.

I think this would do it:

mail `grep ^chem507 /etc/group | cut -f4 -d:`  syl2000fall.txt


Some light tweaking may be required, but mail will accept
comma-delimited recipients, YMMV.


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Re: send to group functionality ?

[Robin S. Socha]

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 Is there an easy way to just send to all users in a linux group,
 instead of having to use an alias file?

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