Bernie Huang writes:
> My boss wants me to write a script that will send a email report to him
> monthly with the result of database queries.
> I guess a shell script is necessary. So, is it possible to call
> 'psql' and returning its query result and I can use sendmail to email
> the result? Any other idea?
Conceptually, what you want is something like this:
#! /bin/sh
(
echo "Here's your report:"
psql -c 'SELECT ...'
) | mail -s Subject foo@bar
Reading man pages on each of these is advisable.
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