MAILX question

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello, I am using the following mailx command wich works well. I want to also include output from a log file in the mail body. How can this be done?

echo `date +"%m/%d/%Y %T"` "$P: The Purge Routine Has Started." | mailx -s "The Purge RoutineHas Started: `date`" $EMAIL

This script is sending it's output to PurgeArchiveDir.out, which I want to include as output in the body of the mail.

Thank you.

David

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easiest way without too much of code change would be :

uuencode PurgeArchiveDir.out PurgeArchiveDir.out|mailx -s "`date +%m/%d/%Y %T` $P: The Purge Routine Has Started." $EMAIL

This would put the purge has started message in the subject and attach the logfile ...

Hope this helps ....
Vj

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Vj, I will try this. Thank you very much for your input.

David

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Here is also a reference to having both a body and an attachment in an e-mail:
http://www.unix.com/how-do-i-send-email/13766-send-mail-attachment-body.html