read each line of a file

[cougartrace]

Hi all,

If I have a file that looks like this:

dallas
new york
chicago
los angeles

In a unix script how I can grab one line at a time in that file and email it to someone?

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
while read buf
do echo "$buf" | mail -s 'your subject' someone@somewhere
done < /path/to/yourfile

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[cougartrace]

Thanks a bunch.

This is much more simple than the way I was trying.

CougarTrace