How to set mail subject using variable and ensure attachment is not included...

reno_rita

I have the following shell script fragment. var_name='ZZPCI' for emailadd in `cat /tmp/email_list.tmp` do subject_text="Subject with Var Name "$var_name subj_text_novar="Subject without Var Name" email_mssge="this is the message with variable name "$var_name echo "$email_mssge"|mailx -a /tmp/my_report.txt -s "$subject_text" "$emailadd" echo "$email_mssge"|mailx -a /tmp/my_report.txt -s "$subj_text_novar" "$emailadd" done What it does is Sets the...

Originally asked by Noj on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I have something for you using heirloom-mailx: enviaremail() { values=$(echo "$@" | tr -d '\n') listargs=() listargs+=($values) heirloom-mailx $( attachment="" for (( a = 5; a < ${#listargs[@]}; a++ )); do attachment=$(echo "-a ${listargs[a]} ") echo "${attachment}" done) -v -s "${titulo}" \ -S smtp-use-starttls \ -S ssl-verify=ignore \ -S smtp-auth=login \ -S smtp=smtp://$1 \ -S from="${2}" \ -S smtp-auth-user=$3 \ -S smtp-auth-password=$4 \ -S ssl-verify=ignore \ $5 < ${cuerpo} } function call: enviaremail smtp.mailserver:port from_address authuser 'pass' destination list of attachments separated by space In addition please remember to define externally the $titulo (subject) and $cuerpo...

Full answer by Ivo Yordanov: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/468005 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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