Pls Help: I want to include the date stamp in Subject of mail

[Sanket80]

Hi,

I am running an UNIX Shell Script and it sends an output to specific mail id's
The mail has a subject like below

cat /path/filename | mailx -s "Here is the List" $MAIL_LIST

Now this command sends the output along with Subject "Here is the List".
My requirement is to populate the date stamp in the subject as well so that the user can know the date when the script was run.

Can somebody pls help with the exact command.
Thanks

[michaelb]

You can use the `date` command to insert the timestamp into subject line:

cat  /path/filename | mailx -s "Here is the List `date`" $MAIL_LIST

If you want to change the default format of the date command you can try something like this:

cat /path/filename | mailx -s "Here is the List date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'" $MAIL_LIST

Note the back-ticks around the command, they are used to tell the shell to execute this command.
Try "man date" at the UNIX prompt for more information.

[Sanket80]

Thanks...The script is worling fine....

You can use the `date` command to insert the timestamp into subject line:

cat  /path/filename | mailx -s "Here is the List `date`" $MAIL_LIST

If you want to change the default format of the date command you can try something like this:

cat /path/filename | mailx -s "Here is the List date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'" $MAIL_LIST

Note the back-ticks around the command, they are used to tell the shell to execute this command.
Try "man date" at the UNIX prompt for more information.

[kirukiran]

I included date in the follwing way it was not working please help me out
* * * * * mailx -s "hi kiran - 'date'" [email removed] < create.out