[CS-FSLUG] shell script trivia

[Frank Bax]

At 11:46 AM 10/15/04, Josiah Ritchie wrote:

>On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:59:58 -0400
>Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > Sometime ago I wrote an application in php.  Shortly thereafter it was
> > decided that some of the reports should be emailed to users on a regular
> > basis (a good job from cron).  The server wasn't configured to run php
> > from command line, so I used "lynx -source" to get the report out of
> > application and "attach" to an email message.  Because I wanted some info
> > from database in the subject line, it was easier to modify the php
> > scripts to supply everything I needed (mail headers, mime headers) so
> > that I could simply pipe the lynx output to sendmail with:
> >       lynx -source http://domain.com/report.php?id=22 | sendmail -i -t
> > But the version of php on my recently upgraded server includes a blank
> > line at the beginning of file that wasn't there in old version and
> > sendmail is now complaining.  I know the problem isn't with lynx because
> > running my script from old server to retrieve php report from new server
> > also fails.
> >
> > Is there an existing command I can use to strip off that first line?
>
>Something like
>
>lynx -source http://domain.com/report.php?id=22|grep -v ^$|sendmail-i -t
>
>should work shouldn't it. Since it's HTML any other blank lines can be
>removed also. I tested it with this
>cat /etc/samba/smb.conf|grep -v ^$
>
>I use the command
>cat /etc/samba/smb.conf|grep -v ^$|grep -v ^#
>to clean up config files before I share them with others.


Except that the records for mime attachments have some required blank lines.