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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Check file size and mail Post 302927306 by junior-helper on Tuesday 2nd of December 2014 03:38:33 AM
Old 12-02-2014
Quote:
> Please let me know where I am doing it wrong.
Well, there are few "bugs" in your code.

Let's start with the reason why you're getting the error message.

In short: You are doing the comparison on the wrong field.

The awk command you used returns the first column ($1) from the output of ls -l /tmp/file.txt.

I illustrated the different fields below
Code:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   60 Dec  1 20:41 file.txt
---------- - ---- ----   -- --- -- ----- --------
    $1     $2 $3   $4    $5  $6 $7  $8      $9

Note that the fields shown here might vary from system to system and thus it is no good practice to parse the ls -l output.

If you want to stick to your approach for whatever the reason, you need to change $1 in your awk command to $5, respectively to the field number that contains the file size on your system (verify in the shell first).

The second solution RavinderSingh13 has posted is probably the best alternative.

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Another problem is that your code says if the filesize is 0, then send mail, but it should echo "No errors" if the filesize is 0.
So either you interchange the commands in the then and else section, or you change -eq to -gt

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You are sending the email without attachment...

Below should zip the file and attach it to the email
Code:
zip /tmp/file /tmp/file.txt
echo "Validate the file" | mailx -s " There are errors : " -a /tmp/file.zip ${EMAIL_LIST}
rm /tmp/file.zip

When using zip, you should be able to unzip it on a windows machine.

Last but not least, maybe, before zipping the file, you will need to replace the UNIX/Linux newline character with Windows' equivalent using unix2dos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix2dos) or something, so that the text file can be properly displayed on Windows.
 

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