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Date: 13 Sep 1996 22:49:40 GMT
From: William Burrow <aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca>
To: pine-info@cac.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Composing mail to all entries in addressbook
Ari Y. Weintraub (aweintra@umabnet.ab.umd.edu) wrote:
: Is there any way in Pine 3.94 to compose mail to all of the entries in my
: addressbook. For example, I recently changed my phone number and would
: like to send one message to everybody with the new number. I can't find a
: way to do this - does anyone out there have any idea? TIA
This would be a nice suggestion for Pine, however, you can do pretty much
the same in Unix using the following awk script. Copy everything between the
lines into a file named: everyone
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{
printf("everyone\tEveryone\t(");
if ( $0 ~ /\(/ )
continue
else
printf("%s", $1);
while ( getline > 0 ) {
if ( $0 ~ /\(/ )
continue
else
printf(",%s", $1);
}
printf(")\n");
}
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Now, type the following exactly at the Unix prompt:
awk -f everyone < ~/.addressbook >> ~/.addressbook && echo Done.
You may wish to first copy your ~/.addressbook file to a backup file,
before executing this command.
If everything went well, it should say Done. When you start Pine, there
should now be a list in your address book with the name: everyone,
containing all of your address book nicknames (but NOT other lists).
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William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network
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