On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:39:32PM -0600, Mark Snyder alleged: > I am doing a md5sum to verify nightly transfer of files between servers and > want to email the results to support. > > Everything works fine except reading the contents of the check file into > mail. > > Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated. > > #!/bin/bash > cd /bak > md5sum -b `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.tgz > `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver > diff -s `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.md5 `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.ver > `date > '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk > #outfile=`date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk #setup name of file to read into > mail > mail -s 'file verify' [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<MAIL_IN > ~r `date '+%m-%d-%y'`.chk > > . > MAIL_IN > > exit > > entering the same mail commands from a command prompt works.
First, stop running `date` over and over. Run it once at the top and set a variable. Second, what is actually going wrong? Is there an error message? Is this a cronjob? If so, then don't bother using 'mail'; just echo to stdout and let cron handle the mailing.
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