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# 1  
Old 09-17-2008
Grep and Email
Hello All,

I want to make a script which reads a files after every one hour and grep a pariticular word on it and if it finds it than email me on my email address. Please tell me how i start and if there is some example
available then please tell me the link.

One thing more that for the emailing purpose, do i have to configure mail server or mail client on my machine..

Please explain in detail..

Regards,
Waqas Ahmed
# 2  
Old 09-17-2008
Code:
#/bin/ksh
# this is myscript.sh
/usr/bin/grep -q 'particular word'  /path/to/somefile
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    echo "particular word found in /path/to/somefile " | /usr/bin/mailx -s 'found it' \
        me@mymailaccount.com
fi

Make an entry in crontab to run 10 minutes after the hour every hour
Code:
10 * * * * /path/to/myscript.sh

Yes, you do need mail up and running.
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# 3  
Old 09-17-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
#/bin/ksh


It is possible, though unlikely, that ksh is not installed.

There is nothing in the script that requires ksh., so it is better to use sh:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

Quote:
Code:
# this is myscript.sh
/usr/bin/grep -q 'particular word'  /path/to/somefile


On many systems grep is in /bin, not /usr/bin and your script will fail. There is no need to give the full path for standard commands.

Quote:
Code:
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    echo "particular word found in /path/to/somefile " | /usr/bin/mailx -s 'found it' \
        me@mymailaccount.com


On some systems, the command may be mail rather than mailx. (And the comment about using the full path applies here, too.)
# 4  
Old 09-17-2008
Grep and Email
I want to use the mail command to send email from the command line like so:
Code:
mail -s "subject of email" emailaddress@whatever.com<textfile.txt

Can you please tell me do i have to turn on Sendmail for this.

My machine is connected to internet but below mail command is not working.

Code:
mail -s "subject of email" emailaddress@whatever.com<textfile.txt

i have to do just send email to my account. I dont want to receive anything, only sending email is my requirement.

Regards,
Waqas Ahmed
# 5  
Old 09-17-2008
[quote=wakhan;302237487]
My machine is connected to internet but below mail command is not working.

Code:
mail -s "subject of email" emailaddress@whatever.com<textfile.txt

What error do you get? Did you check logs?
# 6  
Old 09-17-2008
check /var/spool/mqueue

See if the message is sitting in there. There should be two files for each failed send attempt.
# 7  
Old 09-17-2008
Grep and Email
Final-Recipient: RFC822; khiomc@telecard.com.pk

Action: failed

Diagnostic code :SMTP; Domain of the sender address [email]root@localhost.localdomain does not exsist
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