Re: [PLUG] Auto-send Email

[Eugene Smiley <eug+plug@esmiley.net>]

JP Vossen wrote:
> > From: Eugene Smiley <eug+plug@esmiley.net>
> > Anyone know of anything that already exists that does this before I go 
> > at it?
>
> How about this (untested) shell script in a cron job?
>
> #!/bin/sh -
> auto_send=`{ ls -t file_to_send* | tail -n1; } 2> /dev/nul`
> [ "$auto_send" ] && cat "$auto_send" | mailx -s 'Subject' user@example.com

JP you are shameless. ;) Thanks for the help. Right now all my books are in 
boxes ready to be moved to Ft. Lauderdale next week. I may even HAVE that bash 
book, but I'm not about to tear through a bunch of boxes to find it!

Ok. Lemme see if I can understand this.

Set autosend to be the name of the one file (sorted by mod_time). Disregard 
error messages. Check if there is anything in $autosend and if so pipe it to mailx.

Am I understanding it rightly?
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