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Created January 19, 2017 11:28
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cronjob for periodic report in HTML and cowsay format
#!/usr/bin/env bash
WORKFILE=/tmp/myreport.out
cat <<EOF > $WORKFILE
From: username <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: your html report
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title></title>
</head>
<body>
<pre>
$(mysql -te "SELECT this FROM that WHERE something LIKE 'this%';" | cowsay -n )
</pre>
</body>
</html>
EOF
sendmail [email protected] < $WORKFILE
unlink $WORKFILE
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