It still seems like overkill to me. I just put the pager addresses in
a alias in either /etc/aliases or .mailrc as a list for dba_oncall,
eliminating the need for db_oncall.txt.
In /etc/aliases:
db_oncall: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or in .mailrc
alias db_oncall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then when I want to send them a file I do:
$ cat FILE_TO_SEND | mail -s FILE_TO_SEND dba_oncall
No messing with awk or special characters, or worrying what shell it
runs in, I know the mail aliases live where all the other mail aliases
live so I don't have to go hunting for special files when something
needs to change.
KL> Stephen, I'm aware of the syntax. My question was, WHY?? Robert hit it on
KL> the head, awk and ksh are both interpreting $1.
KL> Anyway I solved the problem with shift, like this. Thanks to all that
KL> replied.
KL> export PAGER=
KL> export PAGERFILE=dba_oncall.txt
KL> export FILE_TO_SEND=$1
KL> shift ;
KL> if [[ $# = 1 ]]
KL> then
KL> export SUBJECT="Subject: $1";
print $SUBJECT >> $$.log
KL> shift ;
KL> fi;
cat $FILE_TO_SEND >>> $$.log
KL> for PAGER in ${*-$(awk '!/^#/ {print $1}' dba_oncall.txt)};
KL> do
KL> print $PAGER
KL> sendmail $PAGER < $$.log
KL> done
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