Sending Emails and the Subject Line, Using ELM

[Tim Hawk]

I am trying to send email via elm. I want to pass a variable as the subject line (-s $Var) but when I do, the subject line is getting chopped off when the user receives the email. The subject line is programmatically determined. If I just specify the subject line without a variable, it works fine (e.g. -s "Test Message"). Any help would be appreciated

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Change it to -s "${Var}" and you are fixed.

[Ray Brewer]

I tried

-s "$VAR"

and it worked too.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Of course, the quotes are what you really needed to handle the whitespace; the curly braces are merely the mark of a disciplined script writer. I always enclose shell variables in {}'s; most of the time they don't matter but, ....