i wanted to write a shell script that can automatically read unread mails and copy each one into a different file. I was trying to use the MAIL command to do it, but this command requires user input inbetween, I was wondering how that could be achieved in a shell script.
Can sumone please suggest... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I need a shell script which runs in the backround for all the 24 hours and send a mail to us regarding the output of the prstat command when the load average increase above certain percent.
kindly help me on this...... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I need to prepare a script which will check my database with specific to particluar table. If the row count exceeds a certain limit, i need to send a mail to a set of Recipients.
Being new to unix, please guide me to complete this task.
Advance thanks,
Sekar. (4 Replies)
Please help me in writing the script for sending an attachment through email.(For example my text file name is :abc.txt and it is in directory d:/abc) (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I m trying to send mail from my unix script,
I have used the below command
mailx -s 'hi' email address < temp.txt
It is not giving me any error,but I couldn't receive the mail
Can you please help me.
Many Thanks,
Pragyan (6 Replies)
I am in need of a script that will send out emails while going through a NAT. What I have that works is as follows:
display_remote_IP | sort | uniq | while read i
do
FOUND=0
for IP in `echo $ACCEPTABLEIP`
do
if ; then
FOUND=1... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm having some problems with my shell script. When running the script I get the following errors:
line 101: <html>: command not found
line 105: /dumpfile.txt: No such file or directory
The file dumpfile.txt does exist and I have double and tripple checked this. I'm not sure... (14 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am very new to shell script and I need your help here to write a script. Actually, I have a script abc.sh which don't get terminated itself. So I need to design a script to run this script, save the output to a file, search for a given string in the output and if it exists send those... (11 Replies)
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escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)