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mailx and hostname

Hi

how to include the hostname in the subject of an email send by mailx?

mailx -s "here goes the subject `uname -n`" abc@xyz.com

or `hostname` list the words as is

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I will suggest you to have a subject is a variable and then use that variable in mailx command.

I hope this will work..

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