Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings all,

I'm in need of some help in coming up with this command which requires me to append 5 strings together:

1. echo "Status from system:"
2. `cat logs.txt` (i need the output of this command)
3. echo "Error output: "
4. `cat errors.txt`(i need the output of this command)
5. echo "Thank you"

How can I append all five strings together? I'm interested in doing this and then piping the command over to mailx to construct my message body.

Thanks a bunch.

What u can do this to form a temporary file which by appending all the statements from you 5 steps and then include the file as the body of the mailx command.

You can use like

cat letter.dat | mailx ...

Hope this helps

Code:

{
   echo "Status from system:"
   cat logs.txt
   echo "Error output: "
   cat errors.txt
   echo "Thank you"
} | mailx ....

or

Code:

mailx -vs "subject" blah@here.com <<EOF
results:
`cat res.ttxt`
errors:
`cat errors.txt`
EOF