Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:57:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> To: "Ryan Sommers" <ryans@gamersimpact.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@lists.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail from a shell script? Message-ID: <4371.67.167.52.21.1095123458.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <50164.208.4.77.15.1095096715.squirrel@www2.neuroflux.com> References: <50164.208.4.77.15.1095096715.squirrel@www2.neuroflux.com>
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Ryan Sommers wrote:
> First problem I ran into. I'm attempting to send the mail via `which
> mail`. I first was going to attempt to concatenate the message via
> "message=${message}$'\n'<other line>" However, this strips the newlines
> out of the variable (both sh and bash). I then tried using the <<string
> redirection in bash/sh and same thing happened.
Things I would try:
Use \\n so that the first pass "eats up" \\ to product \ and then you have
\n where you want it.
Paste in a literal new-line (control-v/control-m in vi) so that you don't
have to rely on \n to work.
Also, in "man 5 crontab" there is reference to using %% or somesuch for
newlines in mail. I'm not sure if that's a cron thing or a mail thing,
but it may be useful.
Dislaimer: All of this comes from Linux/PHP experience, and not so much
FreeBSD. YMMV.
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