mailx query

[HHG]

I have carried out a simple task in my script to email me as below:-

mailx -s "Message" emailaddress

When I type this in at the prompt or within a script the system is expecting a ctl-d before it gets sent.

Anyone know of a way around this. I am using bash/ksh and on solaris 10.

any help will be much appreciated. thanks in advance

 

[columb]

Various options are

echo This is the message body | mailx -s subject me@myserver

or

mailx -s subject me@myserver < /path/to/file/with/contents

As a frinstance a script might go

run_process_with_output | mailx -s "Output from process" me@myserver

or

run_process > logfile
mailx -s "Process logfile" me@myserver < logfile

Ceci n'est pas une signature
Columb Healy

 

[feherke]

Hi

And the interactive way :

mailx -s "Message" emailaddress <<ENDOFMAIL
Look ma' !
No Ctrl-D !
ENDOFMAIL

Note that you can use different keyword instead of ENDOFMAIL.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[HHG]

Thanks Columb Healy I used the 1st suggestion and it worked a treat. Many thanks for your fantastic help again. Cheers