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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Email like files in seperate emails Post 302125706 by earnstaf on Friday 6th of July 2007 01:15:05 PM
Old 07-06-2007
Email like files in seperate emails
My goal is to send multiple files to a person based on their input. The files have similar names like:
Code:
file1-egress-filter
file2-ingress-filter
stuff1-egress-filter
stuff2-ingress-filter
...

The script is run with the filename given as arguments, such as:
Code:
 ./mail.sh file stuff

would email all of the above files.

The script I have currently does email all the files, but it puts each into it's own email and I would like file1 and file2 grouped and stuff1 and stuff2 grouped, etc. Here's what I have:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
TFILE="/tmp/$(basename $0).$$.tmp"
> $TFILE
clear
     echo "Who would you like to receive the email?"
     echo "[1] Person1"
     echo "[2] Person2"
     echo "[3] Other"
     read choice
     case $choice in
             1) email="person1@place.com" ;;
             2) email="person2@place.com" ;;
             3) echo -n "What email address would you like to send the files to? " ; read email
     esac

array=( $* )
clear
for file in ${array[@]:0}
do
ls $file*-filter >> $TFILE
done

files=`cat $TFILE`
for file in $files
do
cp $file "$file".txt
echo "Mailing" "$file".txt
mutt -s "$file" -a "$file".txt $email \
< /dev/null
rm "$file".txt
done
rm $TFILE

I think that should be pretty easy to read through, but if there is a better way to go about that portion, I'd be very happy to learn a better way.

As stated above, my main question is, is it possible to differentiate between file1 and 2 and stuff1 and 2 to put them in different emails via multiple -a flags on the mutt line.

I hope that was all coherent. Thanks for your help!
 

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paps

PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do rtl layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --encoding=ENCODING
	      Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
	      behaviour.

AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)
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