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  while [ true ] do;
    mail -s"Quick Reminder" `cat userlist` <<EOF
      `fortune -o`
    EOF
    sleep 10
  done

Job done, leave me to sleep. (Syntax likely off - I'm sh-rusty!)

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Out of curiosity what does the fortune command do? DuckDuckGo failed me here and I don't want the trouble to use "G word".

It displays a 'funny' random quote or login message.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)

Pulls a random, and usually but not always funny, quote from a list it comes with.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix).

Most commonly seen as part of login messages, as many Unix and Linux systems come or are configured to pipe a fortune message along with some other fixed text.

Note that you can also create custom fortune messages:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/36523/creating-a-fortunes-fi...

I have actually used fortune similar to the above script to randomly select inspirational messages as part of a weekly church newsletter.

As the others have said. Also, the `-o` in particular includes the list of potentially offensive options.

Whenever I want to know a Unix command (and I’m not at a terminal), I just DDG “man <command>” and it shows me the manual page for this command.

That might help you from using the search engine that will not be named.

There is also explainshell.com if you want a quick hint without reading the whole man page.

You forgot to use cowsay.

Or banner ;)

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