topic mail scripting in Operating System - Linux

mail scripting

Leslie Fischer — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:59:49 GMT

Hi,
Trying to script using the "mail" command to several user the contents of a file. Have no problem with the sending but want to include a Subject:
Have tried:
#mail someuser "subject title" < somefile.out
#mail someuser subject title< somefile.out (I get the email, but no subject line is included.

#mailx -u someuser -s"subject title" < somefile.out (rec the message"The flags you gave are used only when sending mail.")

Want to use mail command, but want to include a subject line. Tried getting info from man pages for mail, but I didn't see anything to include adding a "Subject:" on the command line. Can anyone help with the syntax?

Re: mail scripting

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:01:09 GMT

# mailx -s "subject here" user1,user2,user3,user4 < somefile

Re: mail scripting

Doug O'Leary — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:03:17 GMT

Hey;

The -u option in mailx is a receive option only.

Try

cat ${file} | mailx -s"${subject}" ${list_o_addrs}

HTH;

Doug

Re: mail scripting

Leslie Fischer — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:04:51 GMT

Thank you..

Re: mail scripting

Leslie Fischer — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:06:55 GMT

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