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From: mcdowell@e34b..austin.ibm.com (Steve McDowell/50000)
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Subject: Re: SEX!  or, how do I mail to a lot of unix users?
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Date: 31 May 90 17:58:40 GMT
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> How do I send mail to everyone on the system??

How about this:

	% mail `cat /etc/passwd | awd -F: '{ print $1 }'` < mailfile

The awk pattern simply extracts the usernames from the passwd file.


 Steve McDowell (mcdowell@e34b.austin.ibm.com)     	 VNET SC10191@AUSVM6
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