Re: using linux program mail

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 08/30/05

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    Stephanus Fengler wrote:
    > hi group members,
    >
    > I like to use the program mail to send myself emails when certain jobs
    > are finished since I am running a lot of computations on different
    > machines. This is a typical feature of grid engines. Since I got an
    > account on a system without such a engine, I like to write a short
    > script which starts my jobs and sends me an email when it is finished.
    > Here is a rough draft:
    >
    > # /bin/bash
    > JOBNAME=job
    > SHELLPID=$$
    > cd /scratch
    > cd $USER
    > mkdir $JOBNAME$SHELLPID
    > cd $JOBNAME$SHELLPID
    > RUN=$HOME/charmm < /scratch/job$SHELLPID.in > job$SHELLPID.out
    > mail -s "Job at $HOSTNAME with job$SHELLPID done" my@mail.adress.com
    >
    > so how do I terminate the input of mail? which is usually done by ctrl d
    > ... or can someone point me to a source which might do what I want?
    > Searching on google linux mail is not so very successful.

    Just try providing some input to the "mail" command, e.g.:

    tail -20 job$SHELLPID.out |
    mail -s "Job at $HOSTNAME with job$SHELLPID done" my@mail.adress.com

    Paul. 

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