Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

["David Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:50 AM
> To: suse
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] sending ASCII file with mail command 
> (Fedora : OK ; OpenSuse : problem)
> 
> 
> On Sep 25 2007 09:38, David C. Rankin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I try to send an E-mail with the content of an ASCII file 
> as the body.
> >>> I do this with the following command
> >>>   mail -s subj joukj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < licinfo.txt
> >>>
> >
> >cat file | mail -s 'some subject' user@address
> >
> >Always worked as well
> 
> Which is the same as
> 
>         mail -s 'some subject' user@address < file
> 
> just done overly complex by invoking an extra program named 'cat'...
> (My instigation to everyone: stop the no-op piping disease!)


Hmmm. Old dog, new trick, I like it....



David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
(936) 715-9333
(936) 715-9339 fax
www.rankinlawfirm.com 

 


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