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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Please help to debug a small shell script (maybe AWK problem)? Post 302247284 by joeyg on Wednesday 15th of October 2008 10:17:53 AM
Old 10-15-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver I think the issue is with your mail command

My first thought is that the < `uptime` in your mail command is giving you a problem. I think mail is expecting a file and not the output of a command.
Perhaps store uptime to a file, and then use that filename in place of the `uptime`.
 

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uptime(1)							   User Commands							 uptime(1)

NAME
uptime - show how long the system has been up SYNOPSIS
uptime DESCRIPTION
The uptime command prints the current time, the length of time the system has been up, and the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. It is, essentially, the first line of a w(1) command. EXAMPLES
Below is an example of the output uptime provides: example% uptime 10:47am up 27 day(s), 50 mins, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20 ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------------------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Availability SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
w(1), who(1), whodo(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
who -b gives the time the system was last booted. SunOS 5.11 18 Mar 1994 uptime(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:43 AM.
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