hello LQ!

i finally broke down and started learning some bash scripting, but now i'm stuck...

i have a script that sends an email, whenever it greps a log file and finds denied. I'm using mutt to send the email...now i would call it from the script like so

`mutt blahblah@blahblah.com -s <subject> -CC <carbon copy> -i <dynamic file>`

.....that command works fine at the prompt but i have to sit there and hit return to "accept/verify" the information and then ' :wq " cause i'm using vi to edit with. i was wondering if it was possible to have the script throw those carriage returns after i call mutt <and also the " :wq ">.

if anyone knows how to do this...THANK YOU! or maybe even another mail agent that can be called from the command line but not as 'interactive'. I was thinking to use sendmail but i'm not sure how to pass the actual message to it via script... mutt uses ' -i '...anyway

thanks :)

This works better: "egrep <logfile> -e "(term1|term2)" | mail -s <subject> <recip0> <recip1>" unless you persist wanting to rely on mutt.

I would like to suggest these:

uuencode $filenameIn $filenameOut | mail -s "subject" $email@domain.com

Where filenameIn and Out are the file you want to attach.

cat $filename | mail -s "subject" $email@domain.com

Hope this helps.