How to send email once a day at certain time in unix shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi,

i have to send an email once a day at ceratin time say 22.
i have tried with date commad, but not working.:frowning:

HOUROFTHEDAY=`date +'%H'`
 
if [ $HOUROFTHEDAY = "22" ]; then
 
    mailx -s  "Info"  emailid@org.com  < $ProcessStatisticsFile
   fi

Please help me...

2

Why not use crontab ?

3

can you please tell me how to use crontab ?

4

cron and crontab

5

Create a script...with following line like ....and save it.

mailx -s "<subject line>" <email-id>  #u can also add text to mail u know how to do that

Then use below options,

crontab -e     Edit your crontab file, or create one if it doesn't already exist.
crontab -l     Display your crontab file.

follow ex below:-
to run a script at 22 PM EVERYDAY make this enrty in crontab file and save-------

0     22     *     *     *         <mention the complete path of the script that u created above>

This will do the job

6

Thank You