question on mail command

Thanks.

I had a go and have used this for example:

mail (E-Mail Removed) -s MySubject -a attachedfile

That works but it prompts you to enter a body text etc. How can I write the
line without having to then interactively enter body text. I will be
calling this from a batch program.

Angus

On 2005-10-06, Angus Comber <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I had a go and have used this for example:
> mail (E-Mail Removed) -s MySubject -a attachedfile
> That works but it prompts you to enter a body text etc. How can I write the

in your script:

mail .... << EOF
this is a simple text
EOF

Should do the trick

Davide

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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:40:33 +0100, Angus Comber wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I had a go and have used this for example:
>
> mail (E-Mail Removed) -s MySubject -a attachedfile
>
> That works but it prompts you to enter a body text etc. How can I write the
> line without having to then interactively enter body text. I will be
> calling this from a batch program.

I'll do something like

mail -s "whatever" (E-Mail Removed)e < file_name_here

if just a reminder
mail -s "whatever" (E-Mail Removed)e < /dev/null

Now running that in batch, I would do something like
mail -s "ch 04 Stargate" $_tv_email < /dev/null > /dev/null
to keep from getting a batch notification message issued by mail.