On 13/04/07, Dan Track wrote:
Hi I've been testing something out in cron, I ran the following: MAILTO: user@xxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * cat % This is a test message * * * * * echo % This is a test message When I get my emails, for the cat command, the subject states: "cat " and the body states: "This is a test message" However for the echo command I get "echo " in the subject but the body is empty. This made me wonder and hence ask you guys, why does cat work in outputting the message while echo doesn't?
cat reads the text from standard input. echo doesn't. If you want echo to output the same text, drop the %.
