[102107] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Command line help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John H Darrah)
Tue Dec 1 12:34:20 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:33:56 -0800 (PST)
From: John H Darrah <jhd@giddens.com>
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Mike A. Lewis, CNE wrote:
>
> 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
>
Change it to the following:
(date ; mailq | head -1) >> /filename
Note the "()" parenthesis.
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