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# 8  
Old 01-03-2012
Please post the current version of the script.

Though I don't think that the "." idea above will fix your problem it is still good practice to terminate a sendmail body with a "." .
Your problem is about terminating the Shell "here" document. My first feeling was that we need a space character after <<HERE .

On the off chance. If at any time this script has been edited with a Microsoft editor, please post the output from this command which is designed to make control characters visible:
Code:
sed -n l scriptname



Off topic:
Quote:
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
echo 'ERROR while sending email.'
exit 1
fi
Would be much better as:
Code:
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
    echo 'ERROR while sending email.'
    exit 1
fi

Last edited by methyl; 01-03-2012 at 04:10 PM.. Reason: ambuguity and addenda
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# 9  
Old 01-03-2012
I am both humbled and thankful for the time you guys have spent for me.

Adding the dot did not help.

Posting the output from the sed command below:

Code:
echo "Input Parameters"\r$
echo "----------------"\r$
P_FROM_ID=$5\r$
P_TO_ID=$6\r$
P_CC_ID=$7\r$
P_SUBJECT=$8\r$
P_BODY1=$9\r$
P_BODY2=${10}\r$
P_BODY=$P_BODY1$P_BODY2\r$
echo 'From ID               :'  $P_FROM_ID\r$
echo 'To ID                 :'  $P_TO_ID\r$
echo 'CC ID                 :'  $P_CC_ID\r$
echo 'Subject\t\t    :'  $P_SUBJECT\r$
echo 'Body1\t\t    :'$P_BODY1\r$
echo 'Body2\t\t    :'$P_BODY2\t\r$
echo 'Body\t\t    :'$P_BODY\r$
echo "Process Output"\r$
echo "--------------"\r$
\r$
cat <<endKat | sendmail -oi -t -f $P_FROM_ID\r$
To: ${P_TO_ID}\r$
From: ${P_FROM_ID}\r$
Subject: ${P_SUBJECT}\r$
\r$
$P_BODY\r$
endKat\r$
if [ $? -eq 1 ]\r$
then\r$
    echo 'ERROR while sending email.'\r$
    exit 1\r$
fi\r$
\r$

# 10  
Old 01-03-2012
Good guess on my part.
Your script is totally corrupted with Microsoft Text format. It will not work in unix and could be driving you nuts. In Microsoft Text format the line terminator is two characters: carriage-return then line-feed \r$ . In unix text format the line terminator is just line-feed $.

To fix the script, we need to remove the carriage-return characters. They are showing as "\r" in the "sed -n l" listing of your script.

Code:
cat oldscript | tr -d "\r" > newscript  # Remove carriage-returns
chmod 755 newscript    # make it executable

When copying a script from a Microsoft platform to a unix platform always use ASCII (not BINARY) mode FTP or convert the file using dos2ux (or dos2unix) or use a Translate "tr" command (above).


Purely for the sake of completeness: endKat does not match endKat\r (i.e. endKat with a trailing carriage-return character). This is why the ensuing Shell commands became part of your email body.
QED.
Last edited by methyl; 01-03-2012 at 09:51 PM.. Reason: perfectionism
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# 11  
Old 01-04-2012
Hi Methyl,
You were right on the dot! When i save the file in Unix mode (from text pad) and FTP'ed in Text mode (i was doing in default mode till now) the following code worked. Thanks everyone for helping. This is a great forum!


Code:
echo "Input Parameters"
echo "----------------"
P_FROM_ID=$5
P_TO_ID=$6
P_CC_ID=$7
P_SUBJECT=$8
P_BODY1=$9
P_BODY2=${10}
P_BODY=$P_BODY1$P_BODY2
echo 'From ID               :'  $P_FROM_ID
echo 'To ID                 :'  $P_TO_ID
echo 'CC ID                 :'  $P_CC_ID
echo 'Subject		    :'  $P_SUBJECT
echo 'Body1		    :'$P_BODY1
echo 'Body2		    :'$P_BODY2	
echo 'Body		    :'$P_BODY
echo "Process Output"
echo "--------------"

cat <<endKat | sendmail -oi -t -f $P_FROM_ID
To: ${P_TO_ID}
From: ${P_FROM_ID}
Subject: ${P_SUBJECT}
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MIME-Version: 1.0

$P_BODY

endKat

if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
    echo 'ERROR while sending email.'
    exit 1
fi

# 12  
Old 01-04-2012
You're welcome.
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