Re[2]: awk and ksh question - solved

From: Robert Eskridge <bryny_at_dfweahs.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 06:10:48 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00542F4E.20030204061048@fatcity.com>

It still seems like overkill to me. I just put the pager addresses in
a alias in either /etc/aliases or .mailrc as a list for dba_oncall,
eliminating the need for db_oncall.txt.

In /etc/aliases:

db_oncall: 9991234567_at_pageme.co, lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com

Or in .mailrc

alias db_oncall 9991234567_at_pageme.co lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com

Then when I want to send them a file I do:

$ cat FILE_TO_SEND | mail -s FILE_TO_SEND dba_oncall

No messing with awk or special characters, or worrying what shell it runs in, I know the mail aliases live where all the other mail aliases live so I don't have to go hunting for special files when something needs to change.

KL> Stephen, I'm aware of the syntax. My question was, WHY?? Robert hit it on KL> the head, awk and ksh are both interpreting $1.

KL> Anyway I solved the problem with shift, like this. Thanks to all that KL> replied.

KL> export PAGER=
KL> export PAGERFILE=dba_oncall.txt
KL> export FILE_TO_SEND=$1
KL> shift ;

KL> if [[ $# = 1 ]]
KL> then

KL> export SUBJECT="Subject: $1";
print $SUBJECT >> $$.log
KL> shift ;

KL> fi;

cat $FILE_TO_SEND >>> $$.log

KL> for PAGER in ${*-$(awk '!/^#/ {print $1}' dba_oncall.txt)}; KL> do

KL>     print $PAGER 
KL>     sendmail $PAGER < $$.log

KL> done

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