I have about 50 users in /home
I want to create a cron job for each user that will run sa-learn on a spam 
file. I have it properly setup for my user, but I want to copy that to each 
other user, then use sed to replace my user name in each file with the proper 
user name.

I did this

for user in '/bin/ls /home'; do
cp /var/spool/cron/nengland /var/spool/cron/$user
sed -i 's/nengland/$user/' $user
chown $user $user
done

While it worked, instead of replacing nengland with the username, it literally 
replaced it with '$user'

What is the proper way to do this?

Nathan
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