RE: Command line help

["Mike A. Lewis, CNE" <cajun cajuninc com>]

Cool !  Thanks {again} for the help Charles.  I'll give it a whirl.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From:	Charles Galpin [mailto:cgalpin lighthouse-software com]
Sent:	Tuesday, December 01, 1998 3:56 AM
To:	Mike A. Lewis, CNE
Subject:	RE: Command line help

===== Original Message from "Mike A. Lewis, CNE" <redhat-list redhat com> at

12/01/98 5:50 am
>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 ?
>
do something liek the following in a script

[cgalpin pooh cgalpin]$ x=`date`
[cgalpin pooh cgalpin]$ y=`mailq | head -1`
[cgalpin pooh cgalpin]$ echo "$x $y"
Tue Dec  1 06:43:59 EST 1998 Mail queue is empty
[cgalpin pooh cgalpin]$

>TIA,
>Mike

welcome

-- Charles Galpin  <cgalpin lighthouse-software com>


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