selective mailx from a namelist file 1

[hubud]

I've stumbled over a little problem. Most of my scripts email confirmation of success or failure. I do this by having a namelist file with a list of addresses to mail.
Because a fair few scripts run now I am started to collect far too many namelist files.
I figure if I can selectively choose from this list then I can put all names in one file and let the script decide.

I do it as follows:

while read namelist
do
mailx $namelist<<-EOF

TEXT TO SEND

Datamart Support
EOF
done<$namelist

This method only allows me to send to an entire file of names.
I thought a case statement that identifies addresses and sends mail, or not, depending on the name.
Problem is, how do I exit from that iteration of the loop but continue with the rest? An &quot;exit&quot; statment will exit the loop and script as well so that's no good.

does anyone have any ideas


cheers

simmo

 

[vgersh99]

break

vlad
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| #include<disclaimer.h> |
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[grega]

Read the man page for break. You probably want continue instead of exit.

Greg.

 

[hubud]

Cheers for that folks,

I've gone along the lines of a case statement as follows:

while read namelist
do

case $namelist in

Blue) ;;
*)
mailx $namelist<<-EOF

Mail text

EOF;;
esac
done<$namelist

It will send mail to anyone other than &quot;Blue&quot;, or that's the theory. I keep getting the following error:

syntax error at line 71 : `<<' unmatched

Any ideas?

cheers

simmo

 

[aigles]

mailx $namelist<<-EOF

Mail text

EOF
;;


Jean Pierre.

 

[hubud]

cheers jp,
Just found that out by experimentation.

cheers

simmo

 

[Ygor]

I would suggest a different way - without the while loop or the case...

mailx `grep -v &quot;Blue&quot; $namelist` <<-EOF

Mail text

EOF