Hello to all. I'm new to this forum, so please go easy on me. =)
I am working on a script to send two e-mail attachments in a single e-mail, and am running into a little bit of an issue when using process substitution. I am using the following:
Basically, I am attempting to encode the attachments with a command functionally similar to:
Code:
uuencode /apps/out/report.html report.html
uuencode has 2 parameters, one is the input file, and the other is the output file name. I basically want the user to see the attachment with the name report.html instead of /apps/out/report.html
For this task, I am using basename, which outputs just the filename, but, when I use it in process substitution with uuencode, what I get is /dev/fd/63 instead of the expected report.html"
I don't think the problem is uuencode, because I can use the following commands and get the following results:
Code:
cat <(basename /apps/out/report.html)
output:
Code:
report.html
however, echo yields a different result:
Code:
echo <(basename /apps/out/report.html)
output:
Code:
/dev/fd/63
I guess I don't understand why echo is getting a different parameter than cat.. Can someone shed some light on why this is, and perhaps suggest how I might get around it?
I now understand why the output is what it is. Now I just need to know if there's a way I can work around it. For the sake of simplicity, how could I make echo display the results of the basename command?
You don't need echo to do so. basename is fully capable of doing so all by itself. All you're doing with all this redirection is changing where it ends up.
I get it now. You want backticks. And also, a subshell, to combine their results into one pipe -- you can group processes together with ( ), and separate them with ; inside.
This doesn't work because uuencode reads basename as its second parameter, and /apps/out/report.html as a third parameter.
Now of course I'm not using "/apps/out/report.html", my script is using $1.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
I get it now. You want backticks. And also, a subshell, to combine their results into one pipe -- you can group processes together with ( ), and separate them with ; inside.
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