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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to make a script file?
Keywords: Ultrix 2.0
Message-ID: <15659@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 04:56:32 GMT
References: <5828@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <5828@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
(Anthony M Lovell) writes:
>I want to write a shell script (or whatever) which will be used thusly:
>
>scriptname N   ( N an integer)
>for i := 1 to 56 do
>  cat glob.N bbi.N | Mail bbi
>
>It's pretty easy, I guess - important things to note are that the files
>and address aliases bbi must have I always as 2 digits.
>ie: bb09

Easy:

for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5; do for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
	if expr $j$i \> 56; then break; fi
	cat glob.$j$i bbi.$j$i | Mail bbi$j$i # I think you meant this
done

Incidentally, spawning 56 sendmails without waiting would be frowned
upon on our machines. . . .  (Hint: /usr/lib/sendmail -oi)
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