RE: awk and ksh question - solved

I thought I should add, if you wanted to comment out people in your pager list, you could do something like:

sed 's/^[ ][ ]*//g; /^#/d' "${ADMIN_DIR"/who_to_page" | while read LINE; do

     PAGER_PERSON="${PAGER_PERSON},${LINE}" ....

Note: The brackets in the sed statement have a space and a tab in them to handle the paranoia factor.

> -----Original Message-----
> FWIW, here is what I do:
>
> ## See if there is anything to send
> COUNT=`awk '/^$/ {next}; END {print NR}' "$PAGE_FILE"`
> ## If so send it
> if [ $COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
> PAGER_PERSON=''
> cat "${ADMIN_DIR}/who_to_page" | while read LINE; do
> PAGER_PERSON="${PAGER_PERSON},${LINE}"
> done
> ## Optional cleanup lines for the intractably paranoid
> PAGER_PERSON=`echo "$PAGER_PERSON" | sed 's/[ ]*//g'`
> PAGER_PERSON=`echo "$PAGER_PERSON" | sed 's/^,*//g'`
> PAGER_PERSON=`echo "$PAGER_PERSON" | sed 's/,,*/,/g'`
> if [ -n "$PAGER_PERSON" ]; then
> mailx -s "IT IS ALL OVER THE WALLS" "$PAGER_PERSON"
> < "$PAGE_FILE"
> fi
> fi
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