excellent, perfect! i don't know why that didn't work for me before. thanks!
Joel Hammer wrote: > This works for me: > echo My message | mail -s Testing addressee > Joel > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:51:26PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > >>grrr...i hate it when i do this. ok, i figured out a workaround >>(although not what i'd call ideal). I can redirect the contents of a >>file into that mail command like so: >>mail -n -s "another test of mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /tmp/whatever >> >>i just wish there was a way to just specify the body somehow. oh well. >> >>Net Llama! wrote: >> >>>I'm writing a bash script where I need to send email out depending on >>>certain conditions within the script. >>> >>>I'm thought that I could use 'mail' to do the job, but it seems to >>>require human intervention to send the message out. I'm trying: >>>mail -n -s "another test of mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>>yet it keeps insisting on having me type something for the body, and >>>then hit Ctrl-D or a . at the end in order to send it. Looking at the >>>man page for mail there doesn't seem to be any option that lets me set >>>the body message from the command itself. Am i missing something >>>obvious, or is there a better tool for the job? thanks! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 5:35pm up 47 days, 1:55, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.30, 0.39 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
