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#1 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 06:57 AM

Please help in creating this shell script, its to email users regarding
a process status

I want to generate a email from a system, attach a log file to it,
everytime this script is run, towards the end of it

mail a1@a1.com, a2@a1.com, b2@b1.com

how to include this in the script, i want to avoide the ^C everytime
and automatically see my emails thru.

Thanks

JN

#2 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 06:58 AM

Unix-Solaris wrote:
> Please help in creating this shell script, its to email users regarding
> a process status
>
> I want to generate a email from a system, attach a log file to it,
> everytime this script is run, towards the end of it
>
> mail a1@a1.com, a2@a1.com, b2@b1.com
>
> how to include this in the script, i want to avoide the ^C everytime
> and automatically see my emails thru.

If what you want is in a file:

mailx \
-s "subject goes here" \
a1@a1.com a2@a1.com b2@b1.com \
< message-body

If you want to pipe some commands into it:

{
date
echo "------ 'myfile' follows ------"
cat myfile
echo "------ end of 'myfile' -------"
} |
mailx \
-s "subject goes here" \
a1@a1.com a2@a1.com b2@b1.com

If you really need to *attach* a file (as opposed to just including
it in the content of the message), the easiest way to do that is
to install the "mutt" mail client ( http://www.mutt.org/ ), which
lets you attach files with the "-a" command-line option.

Hope that helps...

- Logan

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