Hi,
this is not strictly Debian-related, but I'm doing it on Etch, so... :)
Let's say I'm writing a script like this:
#! /bin/bash
SUBJECT="This is a test mail"
WARNMSG="An error occurred"
WARNCMD="mail -s \"${SUBJECT}\" root"
echo "echo $WARNMSG | $WARNCMD"
echo $WARNMSG | $WARNCMD
Everything works fine if I enter the equivalent command line:
echo "An error occurred" | mail -s "This is a test mail" root
A mail is sent to root with subject "This is a test mail" and body "An
error occurred".
The script should produce the same effect, but instead, when I run it,
it sends a mail with subect <"This> and body "An error occurred" to the
following users:
is
a
mail
, root, test
....although the command line printed by the first echo statement looks
perfect.
It'a problem which has been bugging me for a while. I usually find some
workaround, but I'm a bit tired now. An I suppose it should be some kind
of FAQ... although I couldn't find anything around.
I already tried with single quotes, I tried escaping them, I tried
escaping the spaces in the subject... to no avail.
Any clues?
Thanks.
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Ciao,
Marco.
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