On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 14:18, Marlo Bell wrote:
> I am writing a korn shell script that does a few different things. It all 
> works except after it runs I need it to send an email. I can use the MAIL 
> program fine from shell. However, I cannot get it to run in a script because 
> it wants an input for the message field and to ended by a . (dot alone on a 
> line). I am sure there is a way around this, a switch perhaps, but I have 
> read the man page several times to no avail.
> 
> So my script says:
> 
> blah blah blah
> 
> mail -s TESTING [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?

I've seen mailx used before, kind of like this:

echo "a mail message" | mailx -s 'subject goes here' emailaddresshere

Bryan

P.S. I don't see mailx on my linux box, but I don't see the kornshell
either, so I'm guessing if you have one you have the other (and you're
on some commercial unix).



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