Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I need to search a text in a string, assign it to a variable.

Ex :

I need to get the number that has gif extension. The number is not constant. The search value should return as 1174499845 from the following string.

x 1174499845.gif, 133982 bytes, 262 tape blocks

Go to relevant directory, search for the the variable (example 1174499845) in the directory.

if exists Mail it as attachment else display "required attachment" not available.


Thanks in advance.


Jagadeesh Tata.

Here's a rough ideal on what you need to do.. Assuming you are just looking for one file at a time.

ls ${DIR} | grep "$VARIABLE"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
<do mail command here, unsure how to do attachment as this moment>
fi

grep myvariable myfile | mailx -s mysubject me@myaddress

Text files can easily be sent as the body of an email as shown above. If you need to send something as an attachment, you have to encode it. I like mpack, but have used uuencode as well. Here's my snippets:

cat filename | uuencode attachmentName | mailx -m -s “Subjest” someone@somewhere.com

#/usr/local/bin/mpack -s "Test Email" -c application/octet-stream ./oracle_trace_file.trc me@myaddress.com