Bash script Question

[evergreen]

Hi,
I am learning Linux/Bash scripts. Can someone tell me if this answer is correct.?

Thanks

1.How to write a shell script to look into this file and send a birthday-congratulation e-mail to relevant users at 1:00 a.m. every day. Make your script as short as possible. ?



#!/bin/sh
DATE=`date '+%d-%m-%y'`
USERS=`grep $DATE /etc/bithdates awk -v
FS=":" '{ print $1 }'
FOR USER in $USERS
do
echo "Happy birthday !" | mail $USER
done

[Hayl]

is this homework for school?

[evergreen]

NO.

I am practicing for the test from the Linux book questions.

[maccorin]

and how are we supposed to know without a copy of /etc/birthdays?

[evergreen]

hi, sorry
that was wrong ques.


1) Write a bash script, A system administrator maintains a file with birthdates of all users in /etc/birthdates. The file contains a line for each user, and is updated with the addition of every new user. Each line /etc/birthdates has the following format:

login name: real name: birthdate

[Icarus]

best way to find out if it works is to run it

looks fine to me