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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers direct output to a file then email it Post 302146464 by Smiling Dragon on Tuesday 20th of November 2007 06:02:54 PM
Old 11-20-2007
You can stream the whole thing directly into an email if you play about with sockets (which I'm cr@p at in shell so I won't try and show you how), but otherwise you can go with your idea of using a temporary file like so:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
sendmail="/usr/lib/sendmail"
recipient="recipient@there.com"
sender="me@here.com"
tempfile="/tmp/mailthingy.$$"
print "To: $recipient" > $tempfile
print "From: $sender" >> $tempfile
print "Subject: some stuff\n" >> $tempfile
print "AL" >> $tempfile
print "AM" >> $tempfile
print "AN" >> $tempfile
print "RL\n" >> $tempfile

nawk '/PROD/ {print $3, $2}' /home/user/switch_listtest | sort -k1,2 >> $tempfile
print "End of Report" >> $tempfile
if cat $tempfile | $sendmail $recipient
then
    print "Ok"
    rm -f $tempfile
    exit 0
else
    print "Barf!"
    print "Tried to send the message contained in the following file to $recipient but failed:"
    print "$tempfile"
    exit 1
fi

 

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Test::TempDir(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					Test::TempDir(3pm)

NAME

       Test::TempDir - Temporary files support for testing.

SYNOPSIS

	       use Test::TempDir;

	       my $test_tempdir = temp_root();

	       my ( $fh, $file ) = tempfile();

	       my $directory_scratch_obj = scratch();

DESCRIPTION

       Test::TempDir provides temporary directory creation with testing in mind.

       The differences between using this and using File::Temp are:

       o   If "t/tmp" is available (writable, creatable, etc) it's preferred over $ENV{TMPDIR} etc. Otherwise a temporary directory will be used.

	   This is "temp_root"

       o   Lockfiles are used on "t/tmp", to prevent race conditions when running under a parallel test harness.

       o   The "temp_root" is cleaned at the end of a test run, but not if tests failed.

       o   "temp_root" is emptied at the begining of a test run unconditionally.

       o   The default policy is not to clean the individual "tempfiles" and "tempdirs" within "temp_root", in order to aid in debugging of failed
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EXPORTS

       temp_root
	   The root of the temporary stuff.

       tempfile
       tempdir
	   Wrappers for the File::Temp functions of the same name.

	   The default options are changed to use "temp_root" for "DIR" and disable "CLEANUP", but these are overridable.

       scrach
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SEE ALSO

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VERSION CONTROL

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AUTHOR

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COPYRIGHT

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