UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I like to use mailx -s to send an entire xxxxx.log to my outlook e-mail account.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.

mailx -s "Some Subject" user@domain.com < /path/to/some/log

Keep in mind that mailx only helps you if you have some outbound mail capability.

Cheers,

Keith

I always do this by:

cat /my/logfile | mailx -s "subject" user@domain.com

Just another example of how you can do a task lots of different ways in Unix . . . .

It's also a very good example of UUOC

Hey Ygor,

Thanks for the link, I'm always up for a beating from the clue-stick.

However, after reading some of the entries I'm a bit confused. The way I did it I use cat to open the file then | to send it to mailx. The other way you are still having to get the data out of the file and use < to send it to mailx. So I'm not sure why the way I said is considered less efficient. Doesn't the computer have to do the equivalent work either way?

I think after reading it through that doing it the way kduffin suggested mailx itself somehow grabs the data from the file without needing another process, while my way needs 1 process for the cat and another for the mailx. But I'm not sure if I'm understanding it right.

Thanks,
Ralph

See: Learning the Korn Shell Chapter 7: Input/Output and Command-line Processing

Thanks for the link. I've got it open now and will have a look.