Re: 'find' and 'sendmail'

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PetePuma How many lumps do you want Premium,MVM join:2002-06-13 Arlington, VA	reply to DprssdIsntFn Re: 'find' and 'sendmail' said by DprssdIsntFn: sendmail requires that there be no space between angle bracket and the expanded argument. e.g. sendmail -t <emails/new/test1 I'm curious to see what other folks say. However I can't see why Sendmail would have any visibility into what the shell does in terms of redirection. Are you sure the space is the only problem?
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nwrickert sand groper Premium,MVM join:2004-09-04 Geneva, IL kudos:7 Reviews: ·AT&T U-Verse	You are correct. The space is a bogus issue. I think the problem here is that "<" is a shell meta-character, but "find" is passing that directly to sendmail, bypassing the shell. So there is nothing to interpret "<" as file redirection. Simplest would be to write a short shell script to mail one file, and then use that shell script as command that is run by "find ... -exec". -- AT&T dsl; Westell 2200 modem/router; SuSE 10.1; firefox 2.0.0.4
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