[CentOS] help!

Les Mikesell
2010-03-24T15:33:48Z

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.com

You 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 annoying

date 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/scripts

Just 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.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com