Script to send mail every monday.

[bhaskaran]

Iam maintaining a file , which i update every sunday morning. i want this to be mailed on monday morning, either when i invoke unix or before noon.

can anybody help me.

[Alex Lavrov]

You can make a script that mails your file,
and schedule it in crontab to run every monday.

[Mark Grant]

why don't you put the script in cron

An entry like

0 11 * * 1 myscript

will send the mail out an 11.00 every monday.

[bhaskaran]

It's ok to include in cron, but our administrator has disabled cron, is their any other option.
please do help me...

[Mark Grant]

You only other option is to write a script yourself that never exits but sleeps for 24 hours and then checks the day before sending a mail. "date +%u" will return a day number and 1 is Monday.

[Kent Ostby]

I have something like this.

It reads the date using the date command and then it checks the keys in a data file.

If any of the keys match either the day of the week or the month/day combination then part of the matching line is put into the subject field and the whole file is emailed.

I use this as a way of doing todo lists for myself. I run it out of cron each day.

Here is my script. After that I will list the awk script that is called. I'm sure it could be cleaned up, but it certainly works.

~/notes is the directory where I keep my todo lists.

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/notes
touch .ml0000
rm .ml*
date | awk '{print $1,$2$3}' | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" > .ml0000
cat .ml0000 > .ml0010
cat standard_notes >> .ml0010
awk -f ~/bin/ml.awk < .ml0010 > .ml0020
if [ -s .ml0020 ]
then
mailx -s " `cat .ml0020`" youremailaddresshere@yahoo.com < standard_notes
fi

Here's the awk script

BEGIN {printit="";}
NR==1 {keyone=$1; keytwo=$2;next}
keyone==$1 {printit=printit" / "substr($0,8,13);}
$1=="EVERY" {printit=printit" / "substr($0,8,13);}
$1=="WKED" {if(substr(keyone,1,1)=="S") printit=printit" / "substr($0,8,13);}
$1=="WKDY" {if(substr(keyone,1,1)!="S") printit=printit" / "substr($0,8,13);}
keytwo==$1 {printit=printit" / "substr($0,8,13);}
END {
if ( length(printit) > 2 )
print printit}

Sample line is:
THU Close calls

The script is looking at the first field to see if matches the right day of the week or date.

I will post a subset of this that just does mondays below.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

[Kent Ostby · Accepted solution]

#!/bin/sh
touch .mailit.uu1
rm .mailit.uu*
date | awk '/^Mon/' > .mailit.uu1
if [ -s .mailit.uu1 ]
then
mailx -s "Your message" kmo < messagefile
fi
exit

You would have to start up this script either via cron as mentioned earlier (and cron can do the mailing for you) ... or in a startup file on your system.