Multiple File Update

[beaster]

I have a script running on a server which has one file called members.list

This file consists of many email addresses that the script uses to mail its output to.

The way it is set up is that the members.list file is only in one directory, but I want to put multiple copies in several users directorys for them to be able to add addresses as they need to, but I need the script to read the addresses from all the files in seperate directories.

Any thoughts?

 

[danielhozac]

Use symlinks? //Daniel

 

[beaster]

Can you post an example?

 

[mrregan]

Hi,
I dont know if it is a good idea to have multiple copies because a "corrected" email address will only exist in one file. However, you could do something like this:
cat file1 file2 file3 | sort -u > consolidatedfile

 

[danielhozac]

Symlinks, symbolic links, are basically links to another file. Like if you create a symlink named &quot;hi&quot; in your home directory linking to, say your mail spool, you can use &quot;hi&quot; has if it was your actual mail spool file. To create a symbolic link, you use &quot;[tt]ln -s <target> <filename>[/tt]&quot;. If you leave out filename, it will automatically use the same name as the target has. //Daniel