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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech2!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-cv!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.willamette.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] How do you mail an entire group? Date: 14 Nov 1995 20:24:02 -0800 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Lines: 17 Sender: nawaz921@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imspjqmrod.fsf@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <andrew-1011952131170001@dslip7.cc.utas.edu.au> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: andrew@hobart.tased.edu.au's message of Fri, 10 Nov 1995 21:31:17 +1100 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.9 In article <andrew-1011952131170001@dslip7.cc.utas.edu.au> andrew@hobart.tased.edu.au (Andrew) writes: $ I'm running FreeBSD2.0.5 and wondered, is it possible to mail an entire $ group (without typing in the individuals names)? a group, as in /etc/group? let's say you want to mail wheel wheel:*:0:root,fn,alecto,avenger cat file-to-mail | mail -s "subject" \ `grep '^wheel:' /etc/group | sed -e 's/^.*:.:.://g'` there's probably a more elegant way to do it...