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Old 08-18-2015
UNIX email issue
Hi all,

I have tried to send an email with the below script. but i am not getting the subject of the email where it is present in the simply.txt.

I am using HP UNIX server.

I am not sure what mistake i made in the below unix command. any help would be appreciated.

Code:
 cat simply.txt 
please reach out to support to support team.

Code:
uuencode simply.txt simply.txt | mailx -s "Alert Email for JOBS Failed for week $week"  arunkumar@trival.com  < /dev/null

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Old 08-18-2015
Arun,

You've redirected STDIN twice, you'll need to remove < /dev/null from the command line.

- DL
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Old 08-18-2015
If simply.txt is just ASCII text, try
Code:
mailx -s "Alert Email for JOBS Failed for week $week"  arunkumar@trival.com  <simply.txt

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