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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AIX .ksh script freezes when using the mail -s command Post 302531069 by jimbojames on Wednesday 15th of June 2011 09:41:46 PM
Old 06-15-2011
AIX .ksh script freezes when using the mail -s command
Hello

I am trying to send an email when a .KSH script is run on an AIX Machine.

This email will only include a subject line that is made up of variables from within the script, and is as follows:

Code:
CURRENT_DATE=`date +%Y%m%d` 
TIME=`date`
ADMIN="myname@domain.com"
date
block ()
    {
    print "################################################"
    }
filecount()
{
  [ -e "$1" ] && numfiles=$# || numfiles=0
}
#=================================================================================================
for dir in /transfer/archive/$CURRENT_DATE
do
  filecount "$dir"/*
  if [ $numfiles -gt 0 ]
  then
    echo""
    block
    mail -s "%d files found in %s\n" "$numfiles" "$dir" $ADMIN
    printf "%d files found in %s\n" "$numfiles" "$dir"
    block
    echo""
  fi
done

Whenever I attempt to run this script it freezes at the following point:
Code:
 block
    mail -s "%d files found in %s\n" "$numfiles" "$dir" $ADMIN

I have run the printf command by itself, and this works as expected. I know that the mail function is working correctly as I have another script that this works on.

Could anyone offer some advice on the problem?
 

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