Mark Snyder wrote: > > > Garrick Staples wrote: >> 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' me at mymailaddr.com <<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. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Yes you are right about setting a variable, but this was supposed to be > a quick and dirty. > > I will want it to be a cronjob when its working, how can I get it to > mail the output of the diff? and not just the stdout of the cronjob? > The whole point of this is the get the output of the diff to someone. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Works fine. Please ignore my stupidity. Must still be hung over from the weekend. Still I would like to know if anyone has a way to make the mail tilde/escape options work from within a script.