[102082] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Command line help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Kleber)
Tue Dec 1 10:52:39 1998
From: Michael Kleber <kleber@math.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:51:54 -0500 (EST)
To: cajun@cajuninc.com, redhat-list@redhat.com
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> 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.
echo `date` `mailq | head -1` >> /filename
Though if I were you I'd put some field delimeter in, like
echo `date` -- `mailq | head -1` >> /filename
It separates things visually and might make administration easier if
you want to do aytomated things to the file later on.
--Michael Kleber
kleber@math.mit.edu
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