sending output of command via email

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi all

i want to send the output of a command by email, i have done this

<comand> | mail -s <subject> <email address>

which works well, but if the command retunrs noting then i just get a blank email, is there a way to stop this

thanks

Adam

2

Try:

command > file.tmp
mailx -s "Subject" mailaddress <file.tmp
rm file.tmp
3

i tired that

i get this as an output now

Null message body; hope that's ok

but i still get a blank email

does it matter that i am using grep -v to exclude something form the command return

4

Well try first just the output of the command,
and if it works start eliminating things, till you find where it stucks

5

Building on previous posts

command > file.tmp
if [ -s file.tmp ]
then
       mailx -s "Subject" mailaddress <file.tmp
fi
rm file.tmp