On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 10:52 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 22:44 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > >> > > I'm writing a bash script that basically checks for stocks > > >> > > prices and I > > >> > > want the formatted output to be mailed to me. I've got the script > > > >> mail -a "Content-Type: text/html" > > > > > > Okay.. for some reason, FC3's version of mailx (8.1.33) does not have > > > the "-a" option to mail. > > You can format the entire mail message yourself, and pipe it to sendmail. > > > > Consider this as an opportunity for you to learn about proper E-mail > > formats. > > Believe it or not, I've actually done this before, but using mail -a > would have been a simpler matter comparatively. :-( Done.. I added a mail_header to my script that does.. mail_header() { echo "MIME-Version:1.0" echo "From:No-Reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx" echo "To:$RECIPIENT" echo "Subject:Quotes $DATE" echo "Content-Type: text/html" echo } and then I added a script for cron #!/bin/sh # TEMPFILE="/tmp/file.$$" PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT=$HOME/scripts/portfolio.sh $PORTFOLIO_SCRIPT --html > $TEMPFILE 2>/dev/null>&1 && /usr/sbin/sendmail -t < $TEMPFILE && rm $TEMPFILE Next, I think the above code can be enhanced by not using a tempfile. perhaps a < EOF -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:43:41 up 1 day, 1 min, 6 users, load average: 2.44, 2.13, 2.20