Hi, I have a question. how do we send a mail on one line command?? like it should include the.... recipent, subject, body, I found some sources online but, it doesnt send it right away.. I tried pine -url 'mailto:somebody@hotmail.com?subject=My%20subject&body=In%20my%20body' But it goes to mail, and waits me to send it.. I just want to send and finish it at that command Please help me thanks

the basic 'mail' command is limited in features and varies with the OS flavor. Most for example do not support the subject or multiple recipients. cat filename | mail recipient@domainname.com if yours supports a subject it would be with a '-s' flag cat filename | mail -s 'mail subject' recipient@domainname.com you can include attachments with uuencode uuencode filename filename | mail recipient@domainname.com elm if available should support more options.

Thanks alot.. its helping me.. I have another question.. what if i want to display the file and display the finger log like cat mailfile | mail $user "is fine" what about cat mailfile finger | egrep $user | mail $user , i dont know thatmuch of scripting but if you can help me i will appreciate it thanks

are 'mailfile' and 'finger' two files that exist on your computer? If they are, that syntax should work cat file1 file2 | grep pattern | mail recipient@domainname.com I use this often to send the output of a job to myself such as: df -k | mail recipient@domainname.com

Thanks Alot David.