How do I enter a subject when awk

360 · 05-06-2002, 02:56 PM

How do I include a subject when running the shell script:
grep "^From *" abuse.axis.old | awk '{print $2}'| mail admin@mydomain.com

I receive the amail fine but without a subject.

Thanks

kill-hup · 05-06-2002, 06:39 PM

Unless you need a dynamic subject, "mail -s subject addr" should work fine.

360 · 05-06-2002, 07:34 PM

Quick note: It did not like my subject unless it was one word.

grep "^From *" abuse.axis.old | awk '{print $2}'| mail -s abuse_email admin@mydomain.com

Worked great. Thanks.

kill-hup · 05-06-2002, 08:22 PM

You should quote multi-word subjects:

mail -s "This is an email" user@host.com

That should do the trick.