02-03-2009
help on mailx command
hi,
i want to pass a unix variable as the subject of the mail alongwith a string. My part of code is as below..
week_end_dt=`sqlplus -s
rsamart@martdev.world/rsamart<<EOF
SET FEED OFF;
SET TIMING OFF;
SET HEADING OFF;
SET PAGESIZE 500;
SET LINESIZE 1000;
select to_char(max(week_date),'MM-DD-YYYY') from RM_EV_WEEK_LKP;
SET HEADING ON;
exit;
EOF`
subject="Early view data mart build completed on"$week_end_dt
echo "" | mailx -s "$subject"
ayisha.ikbal@abbott.com
in subject of the mail, I am only getting Early view data mart build completed on and not the value of $week_end_dt...
where m i making the mistake...
ITS VERY URGENT...
plz suggest ASAP...
thanks in advance.
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mail
mail(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands mail(1B)
NAME
mail, Mail - interactive message processing system
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/mail ...
/usr/ucb/Mail ...
DESCRIPTION
/usr/ucb/mail and /usr/ucb/Mail are provided as links to /usr/bin/mailx. See mailx(1) for more information on the usage of these commands.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
/usr/ucb/mail
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
/usr/ucb/Mail
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mailx(1),attributes(5)
SunOS 5.11 19 Aug 1998 mail(1B)