I write a lot of Python, feel free to run your script by me for a code review or whatever. Send it direct email, [email protected]
On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:21 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2024, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > Perl for the win. > > Michael, > > As I thought more about my need I recognized that a more comprehensive > scripting language than sed or awk was needed. > > I don't know perl, so I'm developing a python script that's more > comprehensive. > > My end result is a script that replaces a saluation marker at the top of a > message file with the recipient's name, then pipes the result to the email > address of the recipient. Rinse and repeat for all recipients. > > One way to do this is to read the first line in the file (a name) and write > that to an external file, salutations.txt. Then read the second line (an > email address) and write that to another external file, addresses.txt. The > following line is blank so it's skipped. The two files would then be > processed using sed and piped to mailx. > > Another way is to skip the external files and add the salutation to the > message and send that to the email address all in one fell swoop. I think > that's the better way. But, it's been a long time since I wrote a Python > script so this will take me a while to do > > I'm sure that Perl and other scripting languages will do the same job, but > Python is the only one I've used for a couple of decades when I stopped > writing in C. > > Thanks again, > > Rich > >
