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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unable to attache file in mailx Post 302363158 by nicknihal on Monday 19th of October 2009 03:20:50 PM
Old 10-19-2009
Question Unable to attache file in mailx
I have script to send report to the recipent along with a short decription of a message. But unfortunatly it fails to deliver the report as attachment nothing apart from the message come,
please find the part where I am getting stuck and confused ... please check out if you have any better suggestion to it.

below is the part where it should attach the file and send it but it fails to do.

please advice.
Code:
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
#       Checking for the number of SAL016 reports
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#

if [ $count -eq 0 ]
then
        MESSAGE="Hi,\n\nThere are no SAL016 reports for ${name} in today's run test. \n\nThanks,\nWMG IT Operations"
        echo "$MESSAGE" | mailx -s "${name} SAL016 reports for the run date of `date +%d-%b-%Y`" peter.tom@test.com
        exit 1
fi

if [ $count -lt 2 ]
then
        MESSAGE="Hi,\n\nOnly one SAL016 report generated for ${name} in today's run test1. \n\nThanks,\nWMG IT Operations"
        echo "$MESSAGE" | mailx -s "${name} SAL016 reports for the run date of `date +%d-%b-%Y`" peter.tom@test.com
        exit 1
fi

ux2dos $report1 > $report1.txt
ux2dos $report2 > $report2.txt

#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
#       Sending a mail with SAL016 reports
#---------------------------------------------------------------------#

MESSAGE="Hi,\n\nPlease find the attached ${name} SAL016 Reports.\n\nThanks,\nWMG IT Operations"
$(echo "$MESSAGE"; uuencode $report1.txt ${name}_SAL016_Report1.txt; uuencode $report2.txt ${name}_SAL016_Report2.txt) | mailx -s "${name} SAL016 reports for
 the run date of `date +%d-%b-%Y`" peter.tom@test.com

Last edited by pludi; 10-19-2009 at 05:35 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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mac2unix

dos2unix(1)						      General Commands Manual						       dos2unix(1)

NAME

       dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter

SYNOPSYS

       dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

       Options:

       [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -h --help
	      Print online help.

       -k --keepdate
	      Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.

       -q --quiet
	      Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.

       -V --version
	      Prints version information.

       -c --convmode convmode
	      Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.

       -o --oldfile file ...
	      Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.

       -n --newfile infile outfile ...
	      New  file  mode.	Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
	      used or you WILL lost your files.

EXAMPLES

       Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

	      dos2unix

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt b.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode.  Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.  Convert	c.txt  from  Mac  to  Unix
       ascii format.

	      dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.

	      dos2unix -k a.txt

	      dos2unix -k -o a.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.

	      dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

       Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt.  Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.

	      dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

       The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode.  If you know why is that so, please tell me.

AUTHORS

       Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>

       Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>

MISCELLANY

       Tested environment:

	      Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8

	      SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3

	      MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02

       Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.

SEE ALSO

       unix2dos(1) mac2unix(1)

1995.03.31							   dos2unix v3.0						       dos2unix(1)
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