mail scripting

[Leslie Fischer]

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?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

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

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

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

Try

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

HTH;

Doug

[Leslie Fischer]

Thank you..

[Leslie Fischer]

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