Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have the following small script. How can I just print out the string with missing message and send to hotmail.com? Also,
can i set the message a bit more beautiful such as "Dear All, the following list is missing in our system"?

#!/bin/sh
MSG=/log
cat list11.txt |
awk ' BEGIN { flag = "y" }
{ if(str != substr($0,1,46))
{
if ( flag == "n" ) print str " is no missing"
str = substr($0,1,46);
seq = substr($0,47,51);
flag = "n"
}
else
{
seq1 = substr($0,47,51)
seq = int(seq) + 1;
if( seq != int(seq1) )
{
flag="y"
while( seq != int(seq1) )
{
printf("%s%05d%s\n", substr($0,1,46), seq, " is missing")
seq = int(seq) + 1;
}
}
}
}' > result.txt
cat result.txt | sort | cut -c 35-70 >> result2.txt
cp result2.txt /log/missing.msg
mailx -s \'"Missing tap file status'" xxxx#hotmail.com < $MSG/missing.msg

Try changing the last few lines to....

Echo "Dear All\nHere is the list etc etc \n\n" > result2.txt
cat result.txt | sort | cut -c 35-70 >> result2.txt
cat result2.txt | mailx -s "Missing tap file status" xxxx#hotmail.com

In regard to the hotmail email, your server must be configure to handle email requests being sent to the "outside world".....

Great..Thx!