>I'm trying to do, I have a list of users that I need to send an email
>to in a file. the problem is that I need to customize the subject
>line.  so what the input file looks like is this:
>
>email <tab> subject <cr>
>email <tab> subject <cr>
>...
>
>I want to loop through the file and use the mail command
>
>mail $email -s $subject < email.txt

while read email subject; do
  mail -s "$subject" "$email" <email.txt
done <input_file

Ken Pizzini

documented on: 1999.09.24 Fri 11:11:31