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Agreed. I use bash scripts for my cgi and output plenty of data, building HTML on the fly.

For example, I have a help topics page for my wife that is entirely scripts. I add a small text file, and...

At the company where I work, use a product called VSI-FAX. It works nicely, but the maintenance has proven to be very poor grade. So, I'm interested in any experiences using other fax servers that...

see the following thread:

https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/54436-mailx-commannd-mail-attachment-same-mail.html

You have to include the following lines in the header of the email to have the file go as an attachment:


Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="filename.ext"
Mime-Version: 1.0...

My first thought was using sleep, too, but he is.

sleep 600

So, maybe that long of a sleep is giving the CPU fits? when I had this problem before, and wasn't using a sleep command, I solved it...

Did you ever get any responses to this? Did you decide to use Hylafax?

And thanks for adding shift which I haven't used much and had forgotten about.

Nice touch.

Yes, 2 backtics are necessary. Sorry.

That makes much more sense. The $# is looking only for command-line parameters passed into the script. That's why it's not working.

When you do

read variable

you can enter a complete...

Are you calling your script this way?

./script arg1 arg2 (2nd arg just for testing)

or are you running the script then using

read FN

to get entries after the script is running?

The...

#!/usr/local/bin/bash ;# ksh 2nd choice if bash not installed.
HDRSTR="unique string in every header"
DIR=/path/to/data/dir
OFL=/path/to/output/file
TMPFL=/tmp/zzz
cat /dev/null > $OFL
cd $DIR...

Oh, in that case, I'd write a script that looks something like:

#!/usr/bin/ksh (I use ksh on AIX unless bash is available)
checkdate () {
CHKDT=`date`
CHKDT=`echo $CHKDT|perl -pe 's/ /...

The first line works because it's running every minute of every day and the program being called accepts passed parameters that control what actually happens when. When I write programs that have the...

Please don't just tell us it's working. This forum is searchable on the internet and from personal experience there's nothing as frustrating as reading through a thread like this with no solutions...

I usually solve these issues by writing a script in my home bin directory, then calling it via cron. That way, I can test it and so far haven't had issues with things working differently in cron....