mail script

Hi

Can someone help me with a simple email script?

I want to execute it from the termainal.

Something like this..

I run IFCONFIG > (redirect results to file) then email it.

I have evolution setup for emailing. Do I need to setup some files
some where or can I use a terminal command?

And I guess I need some advice on a scripting language. Whatever is
standard wit Redhat 9.
Any advice is helpful.
Thanks

Christopher wrote:

> I want to execute it from the termainal.
>
> Something like this..
>
> I run IFCONFIG > (redirect results to file) then email it.

..... in two words, "man mail" ... you can do it from the CLI
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Christopher <blackpack3000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can someone help me with a simple email script?

> I want to execute it from the termainal.

> Something like this..

> I run IFCONFIG > (redirect results to file) then email it.


#!/bin/bash

email_address="you@you.org"
subject="ifconfig results"

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

ifconfig | mail -s $subject $email_address


> And I guess I need some advice on a scripting language. Whatever is
> standard wit Redhat 9.

Well, for something as simple as the above, I used bash. But for
serious scripting, I almost always choose perl. "The swiss army
chainsaw" of scripting languages.

Do a Google search on perl, you'll find a lot of good resources.

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jbuchana@buchanan1.net wrote:

> I almost always choose perl. "The swiss army
> chainsaw" of scripting languages.

..... BWA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA. good one :)
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Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, # Black holes result
skydiver, and author: "Inside Linux", # when God divides the
"C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed" # universe by zero