Re: [Condor-users] MacOSX email

["Jewell, Chris" <C.P.Jewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 Oct 2012, at 20:59, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:29:54AM +0000, Jewell, Chris wrote:
>> A workaround, for now, is to create bash wrapper for the mailer:
>> 
>> #!/bin/bash
>> 
>> cat - | /usr/bin/mail $1 "$2" $3
>> 
>> exit 0
>> 
>> 
>> Remarks:
>> 
>> 1)  The second command line argument must be enclosed in quotes, or the subject line get broken up.
> 
> Aside: the other args should be quoted too, because you never know when an
> argument might contain a space.
> 
> A safer approach is to use this form:  /usr/bin/mail "$@"
> 
> "$@" (including the double quotes) expands to the list of parameters passed
> to the script, each one properly quoted. That is, it's the same as
> "$1" "$2" "$3" ... for as many parameters as the script has.

Sure.  Thanks for the pointer!

Chris




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