Hi I have a script where i need to input a list of cell phone numbers to be mailed to eg: 0845472182 0837891718 0938948948 0238840848 called smslist.txt My needs to read the numbers from the list to do this mailx -s "$smslist.txt" -r emailaddress@co.za smsaddress@.co.za <test file thanks Hamim

I'm not sure I understand your request. To send the entire list: cat smlist | mailx -s "Enter subject text" emailaddress@domian.com To loop through the list and send each number individually: for num in `cat smlist` do echo $num | mailx -s "Enter subject text" emailaddress@domian.com done

I got it to work with one number eg: mailx -s 0845472183 -r emailaddress@co.za smsaddress@.co.za <test file I now need to read the smslist.txt file