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# 8  
Old 11-01-2010
To send multiple files, try ...

(uuencode file1 file1;uuencode file2 file2)|mailx -s "subject" your_email@domain.com

Man uuencode.

Hope that helped.
# 9  
Old 11-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
Lots of questions:
Some of the critical variables are not written to by the script as posted.

What should be in $subject ?
Doesn't matter
What should be in $to ?
mailx -s "$subject" "$to" id11355@gmail.com
What should be in $logfile, $logfile1 $logfile2 $logfile3 .
When the data is loaded, it generates a log file. The log file is stored in a directory called "space/dbexport/PHR/log/abc.log". This path can be sent to the user's, but some user may or may not have access to view the file. So the best way is to send the log file itself to the user as a text file attachment. The user can open the attachment and view the details.


Imagine I was to receive the email.
What should be in the email subject?
Yes, you are right.. But as per the specification, Subject should not matter here.
What should be in the email body?
Nothing
What should be in the email attachments?
Log file as attachments (log.txt).

Assuming M$ email client, what software should I use to open the attachments? Hint: filename.txt is opened by notepad. filename.log causes a question.
filename.txt

---------- Post updated at 21:47 ---------- Previous update was at 21:44 ----------

@DGPickett
Your solution is syntactically incorrect and naive guesswork.
# 10  
Old 11-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by kevinarmstrong
To send multiple files, try ...

(uuencode file1 file1;uuencode file2 file2)|mailx -s "subject" your_email@domain.com

Man uuencode.

Hope that helped.
You can have a message, too. While saying the file name twice adds the name, it is counterintuitive and a bit scary to say write my input, and hardly necessary for such as small payback. You can send files compress'ed, gzip'ed, even bzip2'ed or rar'ed for shorter text:
Code:
(
 echo 'your
            message'
 
 echo Begin embedded files:
 
 echo
 echo file1.gz ==============
 echo
 gzip -9 < file1 | uuencode -
 
 echo
 echo file2.gz ==============
 echo
 gzip -9 < file2 | uuencode -
 
 echo
 echo ===== END =====
 ) | mailx -s "subject"

# 11  
Old 11-01-2010
I tried this, but it did'nt work.
I twisted the script a bit, and i am getting the output as
Code:
/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/CONDITION: 2000
log file path is:

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/condition-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/encounter-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/procedure-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/provider-20101101.log

========= END =======
/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/ENCOUNTER: 1000
log file path is:

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/condition-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/encounter-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/procedure-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/provider-20101101.log

========= END =======

I want the output to be displayed as shown below:
/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/CONDITION: 2000
log file path is:
/space/dbexport/PHR/log/condition-20101101.log

/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/ENCOUNTER: 1000
log file path is:
/space/dbexport/PHR/log/encounter-20101101.log


/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/PROCEDURE: 1000
log file path is:

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/procedure-20101101.log

/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/PROVIDER: 150
log file path is:
/space/dbexport/PHR/log/provider-20101101.log

The shell script is:
Code:
(
echo "CONDITION, ENCOUNTER & PROCEDURE LOAD PROCESS FINISHED SUCCESSFULLY."
echo "Input file path and the total records it contains and loaded into the table's are shown below."
echo "________________________________________________________________________"
for filename in /space/dbexport/PHR/data/conditionExport_test.csv /space/dbexport/PHR/data/encounterExport.csv /space/dbexport/PHR/data/procedure
Export.csv /space/dbexport/PHR/data/providerExport.csv
do
# get description from filename, convert to uppercase
#
desc=$(echo $filename|sed 's/Export.*csv//'|tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')
# get total record count from file
#
n=$(wc -l < $filename)
echo "$desc: $n"
echo "log file path is:"
echo
echo /space/dbexport/PHR/log/condition-`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo /space/dbexport/PHR/log/encounter-`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo /space/dbexport/PHR/log/procedure-`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo /space/dbexport/PHR/log/provider-`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo ========= END =======
done
) | mailx -s "$subject" "$to" id11355@gmail.com

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Quote:
Originally Posted by msrahman
I tried this, but it did'nt work.
I twisted the script a bit, and i am getting the output as
/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/CONDITION: 2000
log file path is:

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/condition-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/encounter-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/procedure-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/provider-20101101.log

========= END =======
/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/ENCOUNTER: 1000
log file path is:

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/condition-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/encounter-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/procedure-20101101.log

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/provider-20101101.log

========= END =======

I want the output to be displayed as shown below:
/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/CONDITION: 2000
log file path is:
/space/dbexport/PHR/log/condition-20101101.log

/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/ENCOUNTER: 1000
log file path is:
/space/dbexport/PHR/log/encounter-20101101.log


/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/PROCEDURE: 1000
log file path is:

/space/dbexport/PHR/log/procedure-20101101.log

/SPACE/DBEXPORT/PHR/DATA/PROVIDER: 150
log file path is:
/space/dbexport/PHR/log/provider-20101101.log

The shell script is:
(
echo "CONDITION, ENCOUNTER & PROCEDURE LOAD PROCESS FINISHED SUCCESSFULLY."
echo "Input file path and the total records it contains and loaded into the table's are shown below."
echo "________________________________________________________________________"
for filename in /space/dbexport/PHR/data/conditionExport_test.csv /space/dbexport/PHR/data/encounterExport.csv /space/dbexport/PHR/data/procedure
Export.csv /space/dbexport/PHR/data/providerExport.csv
do
# get description from filename, convert to uppercase
#
desc=$(echo $filename|sed 's/Export.*csv//'|tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')
# get total record count from file
#
n=$(wc -l < $filename)
echo "$desc: $n"
echo "log file path is:"
echo
echo /space/dbexport/PHR/log/condition-`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo /space/dbexport/PHR/log/encounter-`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo /space/dbexport/PHR/log/procedure-`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo /space/dbexport/PHR/log/provider-`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo ========= END =======
done
) | mailx -s "$subject" "$to" id11355@gmail.com

Note: The user should get the log file path along with the log file as an attachment of all the 4 files. The attachment can be a .txt file too.
Last edited by Scott; 11-01-2010 at 04:44 PM.. Reason: Code tags again...
# 12  
Old 11-01-2010
Well, I guess in the loop you need to extract the variable component that matches the log out, to select just one log to report on:
Code:
 
logname=$(filename##*/}
logname=/space/dbexport/PHR/log/${logname%Export*}-`date +%Y%m%d`.log

Narrative: First, set the logname to the entry name of the file, temporarily (pound on the nose, aggressively, down to a slash), then reset it to the logdir/entry-name-less-Export-and following (percent is chew on the right end, like a writer getting his % in the end, up to Export)-date -and-suffix.
# 13  
Old 11-01-2010
I didn't quite understand your reply back.

Can you pls explain it to me using my script, as to where the changes needs to be done.
This is getting too confused...
# 14  
Old 11-01-2010
After a log of twiddling around I found that my version of "mailx" did not like alternating free text and attachments. We need to output any free text first, then add the attachments.
Also I needed the "-m" switch to "mailx".

The O/P omits to mention which O/S so my attempt may need some syntax changes for whatever O/S we have here.

Ignoring the various specification changes and finer points of layout, this is a reply to post #1 about getting the free text and attachments in the same mail whilst avoiding numerous undefined variables.

Code:
logfile1="/space/dbexport/PHR/log/condition-`date +%Y%m%d`.log"
logfile2="/space/dbexport/PHR/log/encounter-`date +%Y%m%d`.log"
logfile3="/space/dbexport/PHR/log/procedure-`date +%Y%m%d`.log"
logfile4="/space/dbexport/PHR/log/provider-`date +%Y%m%d`.log"
touch "${logfile1}"
touch "${logfile2}"
touch "${logfile3}"
touch "${logfile4}"
subject="CONDITION, ENCOUNTER & PROCEDURE LOAD PROCESS FINISHED SUCCESSFULLY."
(
echo "Input file path and the total records it contains and loaded into the tables are shown below."
for logfile in "${logfile1}" "${logfile2}" "${logfile3}" "${logfile4}"
do
    # get description from filename, convert to uppercase
    #
    desc=$(echo "${logfile}"|sed 's/Export.*csv//'|tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')
    # get total record count from file
    #
    n=$(wc -l < "${logfile}")
    echo "$desc: $n"
    echo "log file path is: ${logfile}"
done
for logfile in "${logfile1}" "${logfile2}" "${logfile3}" "${logfile4}"
do

    attachment=`basename "${logfile}"`.txt
    ux2dos "${logfile}"|uuencode "${attachment}"
    echo ""
done
) | mailx -m -s "${subject}" id11355@gmail.com

Last edited by methyl; 11-01-2010 at 02:46 PM.. Reason: Onitted "-m"
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