how to send a mail with a message in unix script

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New to unix and learning the talk and walk of it. I am writing a script in .ksh and have a requirement of sending a mail with a message. Currently using this command in my script:

    mailx -s"File not found" [email protected]

This command helps me having a subject and the recipient name. My question is how can I write a message along with it. Cause every time i run the script it pauses and asks me to enter the message and then executes, I want to pre-include the message so the script would not pause in between.

user2839978 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-06 14:21:59Z

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echo 'Message body goes here' | mail -s 'subject line goes here' [email protected]

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Christian Aigner · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-06 14:24:25Z

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Try this on the command line or inside a script:

echo "This is the message." | mailx -s "Subject" [email protected]

You can use pre-defined messages from files:

cat message.txt | mailx -s "Subject" [email protected]

answered Dec 6, 2013 at 14:24

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Rahul sawant Over a year ago

The 1st one works for me, but when i receive my mail the message body has "<end>" as trialing which doesn't get displayed in mail but when i receive it you get a preview on your taskbar right its there i can see it doesn't make a difference but was curious to know Thanks alot for the help

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:34:29Z

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Alternatively to mailx (mentioned in the other answers) you can also use sendmail:

cat <<EOF | sendmail -t
To: recipients-mailaddress
From: your-mailaddress
Subject: the-subject
mailtext
blabla
.
EOF

Perhaps you need to add the full path to sendmail if it's not in your path. E.g. /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail.

Update:
See also this question

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nos · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-06 14:22:02Z

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as mailx takes the body as input on stdin you can pipe the body to it:

echo "Hello World" | mailx -s"File not found" [email protected]

Or use a here document

mailx -s"File not found" [email protected] << END_TEXT
Hello World 
END_TEXT

answered Dec 6, 2013 at 14:22

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Rahul sawant Over a year ago

The second looks trendy, i tried it but doesn't work for me :(

Rahul sawant Over a year ago

For the 1st command i used the following: [email protected] echo "test"|mailx -s"test" $mail_person now this command does mail me the message but also adds it in /var/spool/mail in unix

Christine T. · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-04 08:38:56Z

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Define the mailcontent beforehand and do it like this:

mailx -s"File not found" [email protected] < mailcontent

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mahi_0707 · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-13 13:52:54Z

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If you also want to add attachment to the you want to send. Here you go:

echo 'Type Message body' | mailx -s 'Type subject' -a path/filename.txt [email protected]

EXAMPLE:

echo 'PFA report' | mailx -s 'Today's Report' -a `path`/report1306.txt  [email protected]

answered Jun 13, 2015 at 13:52

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