Re: mailing output

From: John Jolet (john.jolet_at_FXFN.COM)
Date: 07/31/03

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    ls -l |mail -s "subject line" root should work.....does it work from the command line?

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    From: Shawn Bierman [mailto:BiermanS@METHODISTHEALTH.ORG]
    Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 9:45 AM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: mailing output

    Greetings,

    I am having a bit of trouble with a script that should email root the output of a command but also have a subject line.

    Currently we just run the command from cron and it gets sent to root's email but with a subject line. So, I thought i would make a script that added the subject.

    I was hoping for something as easy as:

     mail -s"subject line" root | ls -la

     even when I output the command to a file and then try to redirect I get failures.

     mail -s"subject line" root < somefile

     mail complains of unknow users 'subject' and 'line'.

     Is there a simple way?

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