[prog] shell script problem

[Jacinta Richardson]

Noir wrote:
> I am writing this script to email me the output of a
> program. 

> Following is my script & it doesn't quite do what I
> want. I ran it with "bash -x" and it gets stuck at:
> 
> mail -s "$SUB1" $RECP
> 
> Also, I am not quite sure how to get the whole <STDIN>
> in the body of the email.
> 
> Following is the script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> BINARY="/usr/bin/binary"
> CHECK="`$BINARY --check | cat -b | grep 2 | awk
> {'print $9'}`"
> RECPT="noir at yahoo.com"
> SUB1="binary check for `hostname` NOT ok"
> SUB2="binary check for `hostname` OK "
> OK="okay"
> if [ "$CHECK"  != "$OK" ]; then
> 	mail -s "$SUB1" $RECPT
> else
> 	mail -s "$SUB2" $RECPT
> fi

By appearances your STDOUT is in $CHECK.  Thus you should be able to write:

if [ "$CHECK"  != "$OK" ]; then
        echo $CHECK | mail -s "$SUB1" $RECPT


All the best,

	Jacinta


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