[Gllug] pipe data to mail body

[ben f]

> You can run the various things you want concatenated
> in a subshell, then
> send the output from that subshell to mail, like
> this:
> -----
> (echo Subject: stuff
> echo
> head -1 $log | awk '{print $1}'
> awk -f ~/sh/myextract.awk $log
> cat ~/.sig ) | mail -s 'test' root
> -----

Rich,

This was just the sort of construct I needed - thanks.

Couple of things:
1. Did you mean to put an echo in front of the "("
starting the subshell to feed it through the pipe?
I had to do this!

2. One side-effect is that the shell eats my newlines.
Is there a way to prevent the shell doing this?

Thanks,

Ben


	
	
		
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