Re: mailing output

From: James Jackson (James.Jackson_at_MAIL.STATE.AR.US)
Date: 07/31/03

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    Date:         Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:00:19 -0500
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Try piping the output from the command to mailx:

    Ex. "ls -al | mailx -s "subject" <recipient>"

    If you want to send the contents of a file to mailx, use cat:

    Ex. "cat <filename> | mailx -s "subject" <recipient>"

    HTH,

    JJackson

    -----Original Message-----
    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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