On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, praedor wrote: > I am almost there with this command: > > mail -s "ip update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This will produce a message with a subject of "ip update message" and add my > email to the "To:" field. It does leave an empty message body and doesn't > send a "ctrl-d" command to mail which is required to sending. How do I do > that? If you 'echo' something and pipe it into the mail command, when the echo finishes it will send an End Of File (the equivalent of a ctrl-d) to mail. So, you can use an incantation similar to this one: echo | mail -s "ip update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] or, if you really want to get fancy: echo "mail from `hostname` at `hostname -i`" | mail -s "ip update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note: should all be one line) Take a look at the "Command Substitution" section of "man bash" to see what the "`"'s are doing, and "man hostname" to see what hostname is doing. - Jeff
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