mail via unix troubling

tostay2003 · 05-03-2007, 08:16 AM

I wrote the following code to send a mail and return a status of 1.

Code:

EMAIL_MSG=`cat message.txt` 
mailx -s "${THIS_SCRIPT} $finished." $EMAIL_USERS <<EOF 
Shell script : ${THIS_SCRIPT} 
${EMAIL_MSG}
EOF 


exit 1

Everything works fine except that the message body of the mail also contains

EOF

exit 1

bigearsbilly · 05-03-2007, 08:22 AM

this should work:

Code:

mailx -s "${THIS_SCRIPT} $finished." $EMAIL_USERS <<EOF 
Shell script : ${THIS_SCRIPT} 
$(cat message.txt)
or
`cat message.txt`
EOF

radoulov · 05-03-2007, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tostay2003

I wrote the following code to send a mail and return a status of 1.

Code:

EMAIL_MSG=`cat message.txt` 
mailx -s "${THIS_SCRIPT} $finished." $EMAIL_USERS <<EOF 
Shell script : ${THIS_SCRIPT} 
${EMAIL_MSG}
EOF 


exit 1

Everything works fine except that the message body of the mail also contains

EOF

exit 1

Remove the space after both "EOF"'s.

It could be also:

Code:

printf "%s\n" "Shell script : ${THIS_SCRIPT}" "$(<message.txt)"|
mailx -s "${THIS_SCRIPT} $finished." "$EMAIL_USERS"

Or, with bash:

Code:

mailx -s "${THIS_SCRIPT} $finished." "$EMAIL_USERS"\
< <(printf "%s\n" "Shell script :${THIS_SCRIPT}" "$(<message.txt)")

tostay2003 · 05-03-2007, 09:35 AM

removing spaces helped. Thanks a lot