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# 1  
Old 07-08-2011
Automate emailing via shell script
Hi,

I am struggling to send my email via shell script. I can type the command in and it works pefectly:

Code:
mail -s "subject" email@email.co.email < text_to_send

However if I try and automate it it fails. I have tried setting variables for all aspects (mail, email addr, subject, message) with no luck. I have tried using a shbang (/bin/bash for me) with no luck, I have tried the command /bin/mail and /bin/mailx with no luck....

It should work but I am clearly missing something stupid.

help?
# 2  
Old 07-08-2011
Do you get any error?
If not, we'll need to see the trace of the part of the script that's not working
(add set -xv before the failing command and post the output here).
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# 3  
Old 07-09-2011
Try This,

Code:
 echo  text_to_send | mailx -s "subject" email@email.co.email

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# 4  
Old 07-11-2011
thanks - I got it working,

the set -xv is useful - thanks for that.

the piping is good for testing too.
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