Home grown mail scheduler with bash script and cron

If you are using Linux (Fedora/Ubuntu or anything else) then you do get a lot of tools and one of them is cron. Very very useful. Just write some script that can do the task for you, put it in cron and forget it. So, here is a home grown way to schedule mails.

First, copy this script below:

#!/bin/bash -
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE: sched_mail.sh
#
#         USAGE: ./sched_mail.sh
#
#   DESCRIPTION:
#
#       OPTIONS: ---
#  REQUIREMENTS: ---
#          BUGS: ---
#         NOTES: ---
#        AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), 
#      REVISION:  ---
#===============================================================================

mailfile="~/mail"
if [[ $(wc -l $mailfile|awk '{print $1}' ) -ge 5 ]]
then
    to=$(grep ^To: $mailfile|sed 's/To: //')
    echo "Good to send mail... to = $to"
    sendmail -t <$mailfile
    echo "once mail is send, delete the contents of file"
    echo "sed -i '4,$ d' $mailfile"
fi

Now, create a file called mail in your home directory, with the following contents:

Introducing /run – what is this directory doing in my root directory?

http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/

There is a suggestion to add /run directory that will be mounted as tmpfs. This directory will be mounted early in the boot process and can be used in various scenario’s. I hope this will improve few things in the linux world.

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