mailx: deleted 251 NULL characters in mail file ERROR

[NDO]

Hi All

I have the following script:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
if (grep -E 'Year' /tmp/fr/prep03.280111)
 then
   mailx -s "Error from log" fxxx@yyy.com < /tmp/fr/prep03.280111
fi

The idea is to mail me the all  lines containing that string "Year" on that file

But I am having the following error:

Year 2000 patches (ONLY for OS !!!!)
Year 2000 patches (ONLY for HP-UX Application !!!!)
mailx: deleted 251 NULL characters in mail file

FR

[Dennis Handly]

There is no need for -E if you just want "Year".

>But I am having the following error:

What error?  Your input file seems to have NULs in it.  You can ignore it.

[NDO]

What I am receiving on my inbox is the all file, I just want the all line containing that word "Year"

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>I just want the all line containing that word "Year"

Then you need to redo the grep or save the file:

if grep -q 'Year' /tmp/fr/prep03.280111; then
   grep 'Year' /tmp/fr/prep03.280111 | mailx -s "Error from log" fxxx@yyy.com

fi

[NDO]

Did come right now, but I had the following message on the terminal:
NIS map mail.aliases specified, but NIS not running

[NDO]

Hi Dennis!

It does work fine, but if I wanted to change to only search that word in the last 200 lines of the file... otherwise it will be repeating the sending the same lines again and again...

[Dennis Handly]

>but if I wanted to change to only search that word in the last 200 lines of the file

TMP=/tmp/fr/last.$$

tail -200 /tmp/fr/prep03.280111 | grep 'Year' > $TMP

if [ -s $TMP ]; then
   mailx -s "Error from log" fxxx@yyy.com < $TMP

fi

rm -f $TMP  # cleanup

[NDO]

Hi,
In the end I used a tail, so it gave the result that I wanted, but..

thanks a lot for your help

FR