function email_report {
ux2dos $REPORT_DIR/$OUTPUT_FILE > $REPORT_DIR/$REPORT_FILE
DATAFILE=`ls -t1 $REPORT_DIR/$REPORT_FILE`
rows=`wc -l ${DATAFILE} | awk '{print $1}'` # line count from the data file
rows=$((rows-1));         # remove the header row from the count
if [ ${rows} -eq 0 ]
then
result="No items were there."
else
result="Please find the attached Report"
fi
BODY=`cat<<EOF
Job Name: ${JOB_NAME}
Script: $BIN/$SCRIPT_NAME
${result}
EOF`

print "emailing reports..."
mailx -s "${JOB_NAME}" ${REPORT_EMAIL} <<- EOF
$BODY
~< ! uuencode $REPORT_DIR/$REPORT_FILE report.csv
EOF
return $?
}

if [ -f /etc/hosts  ]
then
  echo "File is a regular file"
else 
  echo "File is not regular file or does not exist"
fi