[Novalug] bash scripting

[Richard Rognlie]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:35:41PM -0400, Miguel Gonzalez Castaños wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to launch a command using nohup in a bash script, and when the 
> command has finished send an email with the log file. I prefer not to 
> have to type nohup script.sh & and be able to wait inside my script.sh :
> 
>  nohup command > log &
> 
>  mail -s "subject" email at address < log
> 
>  I have googled but I can't figure it out

Try something like...

( command | tee log | mail -s "subject" email at address ) </dev/null >/dev/null 2>/dev/null & 

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