Re: [leaf-user] Sending mail from a script
I wish to thank everyone who replied so promptly to my message. I appreciate all the help. I knew this had to be simple, but I was having a brain freeze. With you help I was able to get the script running in 2 minutes. Thanks again to all. Best Regards, Roger McClurg [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. Charles Steinkuehler charles @steinkuehler.net 03/22/2004 05:01 PM To: Roger E McClurg/CEG/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: leaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [leaf-user] Sending mail from a script Roger E McClurg wrote: I know that mail messages are normally terminated with a control-d. Can someone please tell me how to end a mail message when it is sent from a script file in Bering? I know it is a simple trick, but for the life of me I cant remember it. control-d is the keyboard equivelent for end-of-file. You can simply pipe something to (or otherwise redirect the input of) the mail command, which will correctly identify the end of file, ie: echo hello world | mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] /my/test/message -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
[leaf-user] Sending mail from a script
I know that mail messages are normally terminated with a control-d. Can someone please tell me how to end a mail message when it is sent from a script file in Bering? I know it is a simple trick, but for the life of me I cant remember it. Roger --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] Sending mail from a script
Did you try something like mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] yourmessage.txt where yourmessage.txt is the file containing your message. - Original Message - From: Roger E McClurg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: leaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:18 PM Subject: [leaf-user] Sending mail from a script I know that mail messages are normally terminated with a control-d. Can someone please tell me how to end a mail message when it is sent from a script file in Bering? I know it is a simple trick, but for the life of me I cant remember it. Roger --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] Sending mail from a script
Roger E McClurg wrote: I know that mail messages are normally terminated with a control-d. Can someone please tell me how to end a mail message when it is sent from a script file in Bering? I know it is a simple trick, but for the life of me I cant remember it. control-d is the keyboard equivelent for end-of-file. You can simply pipe something to (or otherwise redirect the input of) the mail command, which will correctly identify the end of file, ie: echo hello world | mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] /my/test/message -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] Sending mail from a script
I think the syntax you're looking for is: mail-s In Line [EMAIL PROTECTED] EOF This is in line text EOF JamesS At 03:18 PM 3/22/2004 -0500, Roger E McClurg wrote: I know that mail messages are normally terminated with a control-d. Can someone please tell me how to end a mail message when it is sent from a script file in Bering? I know it is a simple trick, but for the life of me I cant remember it. Roger --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
