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Subject: Re: Mail ifconfig -a output to myself
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Frank Griffith wrote:
> 
> I want to run the command ifconfig -a  and have the output
> of this command be mailed to myself via the Internet. So,
> I typed this command line:
> 
>     ifconfig -a > mail my_emailaddress@my_domain.com
> 
> Of course this did not work. Can someone tell me the
> proper syntax for this?

echo `ifconfig -a` | mail youraddress -s subject-if-you-want


hth,

Roman

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