hello, i've just wrote the following : more ./*.csv | grep -i XXX | echo "Dear XXX, This email is for informative purposes. Your total number of hours for the week of `date` is: `cut? -d, -f2` hours? Kindly note that the average weekly working hours is : 40." | /usr/sbin/sendEmail -t mail at domain.com -u Test email- disregard it? -f othermail at subdomain.com -s smtp.domain.com:25 this looks in a csv file that exists in the same directory for XX and outputs the field right next to it as you notice from : `cut? -d, -f2` It's working pretty fine for just one user, but i have to do the same for 432 person. and its obviously not as professional as it should be due to the following reasons: 1. i have to fill the name for each person in place of XXX as well as their MAIL at domain.com 2. the date command gives the hour as well which is a bit annoying can anyone guide me on how to proceed? as you notice im a bit of a newbie with bash? and im trying my best to improve my one liners/scripts thanks :) _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
Roland RoLaNd a ?crit :> 2. the date command gives the hour as well which is a bit annoying >The date command can be formatted in various (countless) ways. Check out 'man date' for details. Cheers, Niki
From: Roland RoLaNd <r_o_l_a_n_d at hotmail.com>> i've just wrote the following : > more ./*.csv | grep -i > XXX | echo "Dear XXX, This email is for informative purposes. Your total number > of hours for the week of `date` is: `cut -d, -f2` hours Kindly note that the > average weekly working hours is : 40." | /usr/sbin/sendEmail -t > ymailto="mailto:mail at domain.com" > href="mailto:mail at domain.com">mail at domain.com -u Test email- disregard it > -f > href="mailto:othermail at subdomain.com">othermail at subdomain.com -s > smtp.domain.com:25 > > this looks in a csv file that exists in the same > directory for XX and outputs the field right next to it as you notice from : > `cut -d, -f2` > It's working pretty fine for just one user, but i have to > do the same for 432 person. and its obviously not as professional as it should > be due to the following reasons: > 1. i have to fill the name for each > person in place of XXX as well as their > href="mailto:MAIL at domain.com">MAIL at domain.com > 2. the date command gives > the hour as well which is a bit annoyingI don't really get if you have 1 csv file with one person, per line, or one file per person, or...but: IFS=, cat *.csv | while read do set $LINE USER=$1 TIME=$2 WEEK=`date +"%V"` ... done JD
On 03/24/2010 04:48 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote:> > hello, > > i've just wrote the following : > > more ./*.csv | grep -i XXX | echo "Dear XXX, This email is for informative purposes. Your total number of hours for the week of `date` is: `cut -d, -f2` hours Kindly note that the average weekly working hours is : 40." | /usr/sbin/sendEmail -t mail at domain.com -u Test email- disregard it -f othermail at subdomain.com -s smtp.domain.com:25 > > this looks in a csv file that exists in the same directory for XX and outputs the field right next to it as you notice from : `cut -d, -f2` > > It's working pretty fine for just one user, but i have to do the same for 432 person. and its obviously not as professional as it should be due to the following reasons: > > 1. i have to fill the name for each person in place of XXX as well as their MAIL at domain.com > 2. the date command gives the hour as well which is a bit annoying > > > can anyone guide me on how to proceed? > as you notice im a bit of a newbie with bash and im trying my best to improve my one liners/scripts >How about: for i in *.csv do HOURS=`cat $i | cut -d, -f2` USER=`cat $i | cut -d, -f<user name field>` DATE=`date <plus formatting options>` echo "Dear $USER, This email...for week of $DATE is: $HOURS ..." done The <text> portions are bits you will need to change for your environment. You can also put this in a file and script it instead of having to type it out every time. To be more specific we would need to know if there is just one .csv file or one file per user and the format of each line. John
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Roland RoLaNd <r_o_l_a_n_d at hotmail.com> wrote:> > hello, > > i've just wrote the following : > > more ./*.csv | grep -i XXX | echo "Dear XXX, This email is for informative purposes. Your total number of hours for the week of `date` is: `cut? -d, -f2` hours? Kindly note that the average weekly working hours is : 40." | /usr/sbin/sendEmail -t mail at domain.com -u Test email- disregard it? -f othermail at subdomain.com -s smtp.domain.com:25 > > this looks in a csv file that exists in the same directory for XX and outputs the field right next to it as you notice from : `cut? -d, -f2` > > It's working pretty fine for just one user, but i have to do the same for 432 person. and its obviously not as professional as it should be due to the following reasons: > > 1. i have to fill the name for each person in place of XXX as well as their MAIL at domain.com > 2. the date command gives the hour as well which is a bit annoying > > > can anyone guide me on how to proceed? > as you notice im a bit of a newbie with bash? and im trying my best to improve my one liners/scripts:D I had a similar assignment once.. The cleanest approach is to use awk instead of grep and cut. With awk you can specify fields in the input as $2, $3, etc..
On 3/24/2010 3:48 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote:> > hello, > > i've just wrote the following : > > more ./*.csv | grep -i XXX | echo "Dear XXX, This email is for informative purposes. Your total number of hours for the week of `date` is: `cut -d, -f2` hours Kindly note that the average weekly working hours is : 40." | /usr/sbin/sendEmail -t mail at domain.com -u Test email- disregard it -f othermail at subdomain.com -s smtp.domain.com:25 > > this looks in a csv file that exists in the same directory for XX and outputs the field right next to it as you notice from : `cut -d, -f2` > > It's working pretty fine for just one user, but i have to do the same for 432 person. and its obviously not as professional as it should be due to the following reasons: > > 1. i have to fill the name for each person in place of XXX as well as their MAIL at domain.comYou need to provide more information here. Does each XXX have its own directory (like /home/user)? cd /home for USER in * do ... done Or are the names all in one csv file in another field you can find on the same line as the hours? while read LINE do USER=`cut -d, -f<name_field_number> $LINE` ... done <file.csv> 2. the date command gives the hour as well which is a bit annoyingdate can give about any format you want with a +format option.> can anyone guide me on how to proceed? > as you notice im a bit of a newbie with bash and im trying my best to improve my one liners/scriptsJust remember the perl can do everything the shell can do and much more, so if you run into trouble you can always switch to perl. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com