Read a file and send mail based on grep

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Hi All,

I am having a job and I need to send email when the job is running. On any other case (success,fail) I don't needed to send email. I check with BMC they told they dont have that in the version I am using.

So I created a dependent job and grepped for the status and sent email. My issue is even the job is success it is send empty email.

 jobdefn  wat_job | grep RU | mailx

If the job is success also it is sending an empty email. I put the above command on the depend job of wat_job. basically I want to mailx to execute only if grep RU is success and on a single command . is that possible ?

thanks in Advance.

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jobdefn wat_job | grep -q RU && echo "message" | mailx
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