Very Computer

 Hi,

 I've got a quick question about how to alter a shell script so that
 mail is sent to a list of people using the Bcc field rather than the
 To: field.

 Right now the command reads:

       (mailx -s "$digest_name, #$volnum" $to < $digest

 where to is assigned the value of the mailing list alias.  (Ie, subscribers)

 Could I change the script in the following way and have it work?

       bcc= mailing_list_subs
       (mailx -s "$digest_name, #$volnum" $bcc < $digest

 or do I need to do it some other way?

Thanks,

Paul

Quote:

> Could I change the script in the following way and have it work?

>       bcc= mailing_list_subs
>       (mailx -s "$digest_name, #$volnum" $bcc < $digest

Um, no, the name of the variable isn't going to make any difference
to how mailx interprets the command line arguments it receives.

Quote:> or do I need to do it some other way?

This might work -- it does for Mail on BSD systems.  Note the embedded
newline in the double-quoted string:

mailx -s "$digest_name, #$volnum
Bcc: $bcc" < $digest