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I worked out the script Perderabo !!

Please let me know what's wrong with that ;

The theread starter wants the solution in single line that drove me to experiment like that ;

Please let me know if any thing wrong with that ;

I agree there may be simple solution for this .

I got yourr point .... ;

a=`date | cut -d" " -f 2,3`
grep "$a" testfile | grep "SEVERE" | tee file1 | uuencode file1 file1 | mailx X@Y.com


Might be good

You can feed date a parameter to make to output the date in various formats.

date | cut -d" " -f 2,3
date "+%b %d"

both produce the same result. I don't understand why you introduced that variable a. It seems to serve no purpose.

Try:
grep "$(date "%b %d")" testfile | grep "SEVERE" | tee file1 | uuencode file1 file1 | mailx X@Y.com

Thanks for all your replies. This has been a learning experience for me and I appreciate your help.

I have 2 minor changes...

The date it needs to look for has a space between the month and the day (Nov 17). Also, is there a way to have it not send the email if there are no severe errors? I know this probably can't be done in a single line, and that is OK.

Thanks again!

Help... I ran this line and I do get an email with an attachment, but the attached file is empty.

grep "$(date +"%b %d")" order.log|grep "SEVERE"|tee ord_err.log|uuencode ord_err.log ord_err.log|mailx -s "test"
xyz@xyz.com

I ran just this part of it: grep "$(date +"%b %d")" order.log|grep "SEVERE" and I do get output as seen below:

Nov 18 05:02:26 [SEVERE] Ord <R00055430405-SFI> has status <S> and therefore can't be deleted.
Nov 18 08:47:17 [SEVERE] Ord <P00000553218-SFI> has status <S> and therefore can't be deleted.
Nov 18 08:47:17 [SEVERE] Ord <P00000554462-SFI> has status <S> and therefore can't be deleted.
Nov 18 08:47:17 [SEVERE] Ord <P00000553781-SFI> has status <S> and therefore can't be deleted.
Nov 18 08:47:17 [SEVERE] Ord <P00000552862-SFI> has status <S> and therefore can't be deleted.
Nov 18 08:47:17 [SEVERE] Ord <P00000553084-SFI> has status <S> and therefore can't be deleted.
Nov 18 08:47:17 [SEVERE] Ord <P00000553640-SFI> has status <S> and therefore can't be deleted.
Nov 18 08:47:17 [SEVERE] Ord <P00000550070-SFI> has status <S> and therefore can't be deleted.
Nov 18 08:47:17 [SEVERE] Ord <P00000553780-SFI> has status <S> and therefore can't be deleted.

Question is, why is it sending a blank file?

I do n't see any prblem with that ;
It is perfectly working for me ;

Do one thing ... ;

Check file1 which is created in yr directory. Check/See its size.

Also

Test uuencode with some dummy text file to check whether second part is working or not ;


Or try ... sendmail ....

The file size of order.log is 0, even though there are records in it that file that are both SEVERE and have a date of Nov 18.

After I get this to work, is there a way to code it so that it does the grep and if there are no errors, simply exits?

Steve