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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Using Variable As Input For mailx Post 302207612 by spirtle on Friday 20th of June 2008 11:16:51 AM
Old 06-20-2008
To get your $BODY text to span multiple lines try using a here document, e.g.
Code:
BODY=`cat<<EOF
blah blah
blah
fish 
EOF`

It looks to me like the closing backtick should be after the EOF 2>/dev/null, but
why do you want backticks around the mailx anyway?
Code:
mailx -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" <<EOF
"$BODY"
EOF 2> /dev/null

 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

from

from(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   from(1)

NAME

       from - Shows whom mail messages are from

SYNOPSIS

       from [-s sender] [user]

       The from command prints out the mail header lines in your mailbox file.

OPTIONS

       Prints headers for mail sent by sender.	Specifies a mail spool directory.

	      Use this flag if you want to examine a mailbox in a directory other than /usr/spool/mail, which is the system default.

DESCRIPTION

       If user is specified, then user's mailbox is examined instead of your own.

EXAMPLES

       To display the message headings in your mailbox, enter: from

	      The  names  of  the  senders and the message dates are displayed.  To display the message headings for mail sent by a specific user,
	      enter: from -s dale

	      Displays only the message headings of the messages sent from user dale.  To display the message headings in a specific user's  mail-
	      box, enter: from dawn

	      The message headings from user dawn's mailbox are displayed, provided you have read permission for dawn's mailbox.

FILES

       User mailbox files.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  biff(1), mail(1), mailx(1)

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