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Re: Command line help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Smith)
Tue Dec 1 18:54:59 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 12:47:41 -0500
From: Fred Smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
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In-Reply-To: <D1DC9C040E12D1118B680060081459491F9594@CAJUN-EXC>; from Mike A. Lewis, CNE on Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 02:50:27AM -0800
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On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 02:50:27AM -0800, 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
>
> 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 ?
How about:
date ; mailq | head -1 | tr -d "\n">> /filename
>
> TIA,
> Mike
>
>
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