Archive for July, 2005

email from the shell

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

Previously I showed a php script to send email. You can use php as a shell language as well as a web development language. PHP has ready made functions for this, so it is kind of an easy thing to do. Here is an example of a straight email shell script using bash.
#!/bin/bash
sendmail=”/usr/sbin/postfix”
recipient=”user@domain.com, user2@domain2.com”
( cat [...]

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Tiger and Unix scripting

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

It has been quite some time since I have had a chance to write. I finally made the switch to Tiger. It was a long process for me. I installed a DVD drive into my blue and white G3 to make Tiger installation easier. While I was upgrading my machine I decided to soup it [...]

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