On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, mrock wrote:
> I have a shell script running on my RH 8.0 box that checks for entries
> in a directory and then updates another file with on those entries. I
> presently send and email using sendmail announcing that an update has
> occurred. I store the number of entries in a variable called num. How
> can I put that number in the email so that it says <num> of entries have
> been added to the file, and not just that and update has occurred.
> Everything I have tried has not worked and only the variable name
> appears.
Make sure $num is in "" or nothing, not '':
echo $num 'entries have arrived.' | mail -s subject recipients
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