Here's another suggestion: ------------- mail -n -s "test2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] << EOM This is the body of the message
With line breaks and everything. EOM ------------- HTH, Brad. --- Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
