Brent Harding wrote:
> How would cron do something such as, emailing a file once and awhile,
> make
> the file empty, and wait until the next run, but not mail anything if it's
> empty. I've never done much with emailing besides piping echo to mail, but
> it's limited to one line.
What I would do is put all of the work into a shell script, and have cron
call the shell script. Just off the top of my head, something like:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -s /path/to/file ]
mail -s Here's_the_file [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /path/to/file
rm -f /path/to/file
touch /path/to/file
fi
Warning: This has not been tested. I'm sure there are better ways to do it.
This is just a *very* rough example of generally how to go about such a
thing. I'm sure there are better ways to do it. The rm and touch lines
might be combinable into something like "echo "" > /path/to/file" but I'm
not sure. I'm sure there are better ways to do it.
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