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Date:      Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:54:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        frankg@idfw.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mail ifconfig -a output to myself
Message-ID:  <199809161954.MAA11943@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <000e01bde199$aa691060$0200a8c0@fast1.dfw.com>

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>From: "Frank Griffith" <frankg@idfw.com>
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:44:31 -0500

>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?

Replace the ">" by "|".

To get a little fancier, try something on the order of:

	ifconfig -a | mail -s "Home net config" my_emailaddress@my_domain.com

david
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