[102050] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Command line help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Tue Dec 1 06:54:31 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 06:55:30 -0500
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: "Mike A. Lewis, CNE" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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===== Original Message from "Mike A. Lewis, CNE" <redhat-list@redhat.com> at
12/01/98 5:50 am
>I'm trying to setup a cron job to keep tabs on the mailq on one of my
>machines. What I'm wanting is something along the lines of:
>
>#date ; mailq | head -1 >> /filename
>
>problem is, the above command creates two lines, one with the date, the
>second with the number of messages in the queue. I'd like for the same
>information to be present, however on line line.
>
>Is there a way to do this ?
>
do something liek the following in a script
[cgalpin@pooh cgalpin]$ x=`date`
[cgalpin@pooh cgalpin]$ y=`mailq | head -1`
[cgalpin@pooh cgalpin]$ echo "$x $y"
Tue Dec 1 06:43:59 EST 1998 Mail queue is empty
[cgalpin@pooh cgalpin]$
>TIA,
>Mike
welcome
-- Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
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