From: Greg Wooledge (gregwooledge.org)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 20:52:05 CDT

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Tomas (wishermyliu.m-1.lt) wrote:

> sendmail -bd && cd /var/log/ && gunzip maillog.6.gz && more maillog.6 |
mail
> -s Test mymail \

Han already gave you a working example, but here's why yours failed.

This command:

   more maillog.6 | mail -s Test mymail

cannot work properly in a non-interactive script. more(1) displays a
file a page at a time, pausing for user input at the end of each page.
Since your script is not interactive, it'll never get user input, so
it'll never go on to the second page.

If you had used cat(1) instead, then it might have worked, although
it's not the most efficient way of going about it.

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