Hi, If anybody could help me with this one I would really appreciate it. I am supposed to write a script that sends a file (using mailx), that I created, to my professor. This is a killer, I can't seem to figure out how to solve this problem. Additionally, if anybody could let me know how to include the date (using the date command) on the subject line that would be great. I put the date in back quotes. (see below) $ mailx username@yahoo.com Subject: `date +"%d-%m-%Y %R"` . EOT but it arrives in my subject line exactly as printed above. Subject: `date +"%d-%m-%Y %R"` Thank you, UnixNewbie

Try putting this within your script. Echo the body of your messeage to /usr/ucb/Mail. echo "Body of Message" | /usr/ucb/Mail -s "`date +%d-%m-%Y %R`" username@yahoo.com You can also put a list of names in a file (/nitely/maillist). Then replace the <username@yahoo> with (and remember the back quotes) `cat /nitely/maillist` CAB

If you can use ksh, $(expr) is better than `expr`. Expressions like this can only be evaluated by the shell, not within applications. mailx -s $(date) etc should work. I don't have mailx to test right now, but you could try something like mailx -s $(date) < yourfile.txt