mailx question

[Hunki]

mailx -s "Subject" email@mail.com

How do I end the above statement if I dont have a file to send.

eg. Generally when I have a file I do a redirection but when I dont have one then how do I send a mailx.

[Court Campbell · Accepted solution]

mailx -s "Subject" email@mail.com < /dev/null

[Olivier Masse]

Try:

mailx -s "test" email@email.com
But mailx complains and this kind of null mail seems to be filtered by our corporate e-mail server.

Instead you can do:

echo "" | mailx -s "test" email@email.com

[Court Campbell]

> But mailx complains and this kind of null mail seems to be filtered by our corporate e-mail server.

mailx -s "Subject" email@mail.com < /dev/null > /dev/null

hehe

[Hunki]

Thanks!

[Dennis Handly]

Besides echo, you can of course type something in and then use "." or EOD (control-D).
Or use a here document:
$ mailx -s "Subject" email@mail.com <mail body
EOF