I am trying to use mailx to send an email via shell script.
Message=<HTML><BODY><p>FINISHED</p></BODY></HTML>
Recipients=email1@email.org;email2@email.org
Recipients=$(echo "${Recipients}" | sed "s/;/ /g")
echo "Recipients: ${Recipients}"
mailx -s "Ingestion Report ${EXT1}. $( echo "\nContent-Type: text/html")" "${Recipients}" < $MESSAGE
my problem is I'm trying to change the list delimited by a semi-colon to a space-delimited list because I"m told that is what's needed by mailx.
However, the response is:
sh: email2@email.org: not found
what am I doing wrong? thanks.
A semicolon is a command separator, so you have to change how you are defining Recipients from:
Recipients=email1@email.org;email2@email.org
To:
Recipients="email1@email.org;email2@email.org"
Quoting the value prevents the ; from being interpreted as a command separator.
Alternatively, you can just define Recipients correctly in the first place:
Recipients="email1@email.org email2@email.org"
Or if you don't control that for whatever reason, you can drop the sed call and just do:
mailx ... ${Recipients/;/ }