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Old 09-16-2015
Mail subject splitted
Hi
I have a script that is sending mail and it was working fine. But the last time it run, it gave some errors. It look like the subject was split into many receiver. I am on AIX 6.1.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
#
HOSTNAME=`which hostname`
MACHINE=`${HOSTNAME}`
# E-mail to inform hci of a stop
echo "### HCI Stop script beginning execution ###" | mail -s "Starting hci_stop on ${MACHINE}" hci

The output was redirected in a log file. Here is what was found in that log file:
Code:
axbe04... User unknown
hci_stop... User unknown
on... User unknown

I received the mail but the subject was only "Starting"

It is like the double quote was ignored and mail was thinking that "hci_stop on ${NOMMACHINE}" where the receivers.

Any ideas ?
Thanks
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-17-2015 at 04:55 PM.. Reason: Please wrap commands and data in CodeTags
# 2  
Old 09-16-2015
Could mail be some sort of wrapper script or alias in this context?
# 3  
Old 09-16-2015
Instead of:
Code:
HOSTNAME=`which hostname`
MACHINE=`${HOSTNAME}`

Try:
Code:
HOSTNAME=$(hostname)
MACHINE=${HOSTNAME}

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-16-2015 at 09:13 PM..
# 4  
Old 09-17-2015
No mail is not wrapper script or alias in this context.

---------- Post updated at 03:00 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:58 PM ----------

These line of code are working fine. The 'MACHINE' variable is a good value.
# 5  
Old 09-17-2015
cat -v scriptfile to see if there's any odd characters in it
# 6  
Old 09-17-2015
"send the cat to the vet"

Code:
cat -vet scriptfile

;0)
# 7  
Old 09-18-2015
In the environment where:
Code:
mail -s "three word subject" user@company.com

delivers an email with the subject three, what output do you get from the command:
Code:
type mail

and from the command:
Code:
printf '%s\n' "$IFS" "$PATH" "$SHELL" | od -bc

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