[CentOS] help!

John Doe
2010-03-24T09:54:35Z

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 annoying

I 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