Mail subject output of script - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

kiano · #1 11-29-2001

I am new to this site so please bear with my ignorances.

I have started playing with mail on AIX 4.3.3 with many successes (thanks to this site) but am now stuck.

I want to send a mail with the subject as the result of a script, eg. I want the mail body to read as the output from 'df -k /......' - this is sheer laziness but it would save my collegeues reading the mail when the results are in the subject header - hope this makes sense.

I have tried calling variables in the mail -s ".....${}" without success.

Regards

Kiano

ghoti · #2 11-29-2001

I don't know if this is of any help, but I had the same problem with getting 'mail' to run from within a script, and I had to resort to using sendmail.

below is an example of how I used it.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
TO="me@xxx.com"
CC=""
FROM="someone_else@xxx.com"
SUBJECT="This is a test"

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t <<-EOF
To: $TO
Subject: $SUBJECT
        Hello,
        Body goes here. 
        regards,
        your script

EOF
echo "Done....!="

I hope this helps a bit..
-gHoTi

kiano · #3 11-29-2001

Thanks ghoti

It think i relayed my request incorrectly.

I need the subject to be the output of a script,

mail -s "output from my script"

Thanks in advance

Kiano

ghoti · #4 11-29-2001

I know what you said, and I think you can do it using this.

Simply assign the output of your script to the variable SUBJECT / $SUBJECT in the above example and away you go....

I only put all the rest in there as it was the way I used it and shows most of the settings, which could be helpful fo rother solutions as well....

kiano · #5 11-29-2001

You're right!

Thanks very much for your help

Kiano

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