Re: Command line help

[Michael Kleber <kleber math mit edu>]

> 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.

echo `date` `mailq | head -1` >> /filename

Though if I were you I'd put some field delimeter in, like

echo `date` -- `mailq | head -1` >> /filename

It separates things visually and might make administration easier if
you want to do aytomated things to the file later on.

--Michael Kleber
  kleber math mit edu