How to send emails in a bash script

01 Feb 2010

Simple example to send an email if $message is not null

SUBJECT="Automated Security Alert" 
TO="alarms@someaddress.com" 
 
$message '' # if error or alert then create a message 
 
if [[ -n $message ]] 
then 
 echo $message 
 /bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO"

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