* Jonathan Wilson [Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:40:39PM -0600]:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm trying to use /bin/mail in a bash script to send me the contents of a certain
>file.
> My problem is I can't figure out how to do the body of the message. If I do the
>following:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> mail -s 'hi'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<EOF
>
> EOF
>
>
> It works fine, but that's only the subject line. I don't really see anything about
>the body in the mail man page.
>
> So how do I include more text?
>
Why not just feed the file you want to send into the mail command's input?
#!/bin/bash
mail -s "hi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] </some/file
Another way is to call sendmail directly, something like:
#!/bin/bash
(echo "To: wilson@claborn"; echo "Subject: hi"; cat /some/file) |sendmail -i
The -i switch tells sendmail not to interpret a dot alone on a line as an
end of data marker. I personally prefer to use sendmail in scripts
rather than the Berkeley mail program.
--
Johannes Eriksson
Computer Science
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