Hi,
I'm a programmer not a sys admin, so please excuse this if it seems a little out of place, but I think it applies to this forum. When I send my HTML newsletter from the server it comes in as plain text on some email programs and not others. Eudora is fine; Outlook Express, Hotmail, and... (2 Replies)
Hi, everyone:
I post a new thread because previous post may sink and I hope the new one can be caught by your eyes.
I created a shell script and the script works fine. However, the mail program part on script didn't send email to my email box and it also didn't provide any traceable... (7 Replies)
Hi everybody:
I usually use Mandriva distro (in my laptop), and I have made some scripts. These scripts work correctly but now, in other computer which is installed Ubuntu don't work, and I have this error message:
The script is:
.....
echo "Your option is:"
echo
read option
case... (1 Reply)
Hi again everyone.
I have recently installed Solaris 10 on a server. Everything seems to work fine (users can be added and can log in, internet connectivity works, etc). However I'm struggling to get mail or mailx to work.
Say there are two users on my server, Bob and Mary. Server hostname... (3 Replies)
hey guys. I'm trying to create a command file that moves my emails to a specified folder according to a keyword that is in the subject.
like move emails with "hey" in the subject to a folder that exists in my mail folder named "hey". how do I go about that? thanx. (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a cron job that creates backups nightly and sends me an email with output from the script. I'm recieving the email and the output; however, the subject field is always empty. Here is what I have in my crontab
00 23 * * * sh /test_backup/test_script | mail -s "Backups"... (2 Replies)
guys, i have a php script that i wrote that takes hours to send emails to recipients.
i can't post the content of this script in here because the script contains some very important confidential information.
so my question is, why is it that when the php script runs, it runs successfully, but... (3 Replies)
Dear unix forum members,
I'm working on a script that will parse a mail machine's logs and print a list of email addresses in this format:
authen@domain.com | sender@domain | recipient@domain
exam
account1@domain1.com | sender2@domain2.com |... (3 Replies)
I have installed sSMTP and set it up to use my gmail.
Sending from cli does work fine:
msg file:From: test@gmail.com
To test2@gmail.com
Subject: test post
This is a test
Executing from console:ssmtp -t < msg
does work fine.
But from script it does not work:#!/bin/sh
ssmtp -t < msg... (0 Replies)
I'm unable to send email from my Linux server despite SMTP port 25 Active and Listening.
# hostname
TechX
I checked the mail log ( /var/log/maillog ) and found the below error.
I'm sharing all the ".cf" files seen in the error log.
1.
# more /etc/postfix/main.cf
# postfix... (0 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)