shell script to copy lines from a file

Warmduvet · 09-13-2004, 05:59 PM

Hi I want to create a script that will copy the daily mail from /var/spool/mail/root and send it to a user.

as in copy from var/spool/mail/root where date = date > /home/user/tmp

any pointers appreciated

WD

scottman · 09-13-2004, 08:25 PM

Code:

#!/bin/bash
 
day=$(date +%d)
let yesterday=$day-1
month=$(date "+%b")
grepline="$month $yesterday"

grep -m 2 --after-context=100 "${grepline}" /var/spool/mail/root

It seems to work ok for me pulling out yesterdays mail. Maybe send
the output to a file or something.

Warmduvet · 09-14-2004, 09:25 PM

Thanks for that I will have a play with it.

WD