On 4/13/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 %.
Hi, Many thanks for you reply. That helps clear up a lot. Thanks Dan
