Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

This is what my script looks like:

cd /var/apache/htdocs/MyApp
var=`more /var/apache/htdocs/MyApp/activate`

mailx -s "from MyApp" selma@mail.com <<EOT
intro:
--------------
$var

EOT

I get output that I would like to see when I invoke the script manually, this is is the contents of the mail:

intro:
--------------
123
456

However when invoked from cron the mail that I get looks like this:

intro:
--------------
::::::::::::::
/var/apache/htdocs/MyApp/activate
::::::::::::::
123
456

Why is this happening? How can I fix this?
TIA,

Selma

How to fix: use cat instead of more

Why is it doing it: Probably since there isn't a terminal tyed to it it doesn't know sending the file would not be a problem without the header. But that's just a guess. Update: if you read the man page you will note -

This worked like a charm. Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Selma