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Re: Sending mail from bash scripts



On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:46:05PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote (1.00):
> Is there any easy way to send a message complete with subject and body from 
> a bash script? I want to run something simple from cron, but can't seem to 
> get the format down just right...

mail -s "My subject" email@address <<EOF
Put text of message here, with variables like this:

${MYVARIABLE}

EOF

The EOF isn't special, it's just the end marker for the here document.

M




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