Re: [PLUG] Auto-send Email

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

Eugene Smiley wrote:
> 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

Consider it tested. Basically broke it down into parts and watched the result of 
each piece. Corrected /dev/null. Using mail aliases in .mailrc. Added an rm -f 
to delete the file only after sending since it won't be needed again.

Final result:
auto_send=`{ ls -t autosendfile* | tail -n1; } 2> /dev/null`
[ "$auto_send" ] && cat "$auto_send" | mail -e -s 'Autosend' list; \
	rm -f "$auto_send"

Works brilliantly. Thanks. And my brain thanks you.
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