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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:04:07 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Steven Fletcher (Shellnet IRC administrator)" <ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk>
Cc: Kwoody <kwoody@citytel.net>,
        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: mail log to myself
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On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:01:56AM -0000, Steven Fletcher (Shellnet IRC administrator) wrote:
>>
>> I have a little cron job that creates a log at night. How can one mail
>> said log to myself? Its not big only about 300 bytes.
>
> A simple way would be to do the following:
>
> cat <mail log file>  | mail -s "Mail logs" <your email address>
>
> As an example:
>
> cat /var/log/maillog | mail -s "Mail logs" kwoody@whatever.com

You almost never need to use cat to pipe a single file into another
program.  These examples could be simplified to (second example):

 $ mail < /var/log/maillog -s "Mail logs" kwoody@whatever.com

Greg