I tried this, but it didn't work:

My names file was like this:

Jeremy

Adam

Sam

My template file was:

Dear NAME

Hope you come to my party!

My code was:

#!/bin/sh template=$(cat mail_template.txt) for name in $( do sed s/NAME/$name/ letter echo $letter > "letter-to-"$name done

7. Suppose you want to write the same letter to many people except that you want each letter addressed to the senders personally. This can be created using a shell script. Put the names of the recipients (one per line) in a file called names. Create a textfile called template which has the string NAME wherever you want the person's name to appear (e.g., Dear NAME, ...). Finally, write a script that produces one file per name (call each file using the person's name with suffix .txt), containing the personalized letter obtained from the template file (use sed). 7. Suppose you want to write the same letter to many people except that you want each letter addressed to the senders personally. This can be created using a shell script. Put the names of the recipients (one per line) in a file called names. Create a textfile called template which has the string NAME wherever you want the person's name to appear (e.g., Dear NAME, ...). Finally, write a script that produces one file per name (call each file using the person's name with suffix .txt), containing the personalized letter obtained from the template file (use sed)