[NTLUG:Discuss] How to suppress null message body report from mail

[Neil Aggarwal]

Patrick:

This leads me to another question:

Is there a way to change my script to not send an email if there
is no content?

Thanks,
	Neil

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org 
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Patrick R. Michaud
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:13 AM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] How to suppress null message 
> body report from mail
> 
> 
> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 
> >Null message body; hope that's ok
> >
> >Is there a way to suppress generating this message from
> >mail?  I have read the man page but I don't see anything
> >that will help.
> 
> Actually, rather than trying to prevent mail from generating the
> message, can you just redirect it to an appropriate black hole?
> Try changing your command line to
> 
>     cat $LOG | egrep $PATTERN | /bin/mail -s $SUBJECT 
> $RECIPIENTS >/dev/null
> 
> Even better (the "cat" seems superfluous):
> 
>     egrep $PATTERN $LOG | /bin/mail -s $SUBJECT $RECIPIENTS >/dev/null
> 
> With this, cron won't ever get any output from the mail command so
> it won't send a cron report.
> 
> Pm