Script to email me a file nightly

[dvst8tion]

I have been trying to figure this out but can't seem to do it.

I need a way to have a file emailed to me nightly. I figured out how to do this on logs, diskusage and tons of others but can't seem to figure it out.


basically I file that generates nightly that is called town13000.txt (basically a town name with the juliean date). I normally just go in and get the file and then do what I need to do with it.

There has got to be a way to make a script or program or whatever that will grab the file and then email or ftp it to me. what I am running into is the file name changes every day. Its the juliean date, so today town13000.txt tommorrow town13100.txt, town13200.txt and so on.

I can't figure out how to have the file backup when the file name changes every day. I have been told there are scripts that can follow along but I can't seem to figure out how you to do this.

[Xaleandr]

Hello,

let us split the problem onto several parts:
1) To send file from script, check "sendmail"
2) To do this regularly, check "at" (add your script name there)
Frankly speaking I did not understand on what step You have a problem.

[dvst8tion]

I don't have a script that will work with the file or at least don't know how to create one.

baiscally here is what happens.

at 12:00 a.m. on 5-10-07 a file is genereated called town13000.txt

at 12:00 a.m. on 5-11-07 a file is generated called town13100.txt

at 12:00 a.m. on 5-12-07 a file is generated called town13200.txt

these files are all located in /home/cdr/2007 where basically all my files for the year are located.

I would like to make or find a script that will send the newly generated file to my email nightly.

how would I configure sendmail to send a different named file every time and then schedule it to run every night.

so every day I would receive an email with the 1 text file I need and not have to dig through the whole years files to find the 1 text file I need.

[Xaleandr]

Hello.

1. Create the script "MyScript" and give it execution permission (chmod u+x MyScript),

MyFile=GenerateFileName();
# Write yourself the function GenerateFileName() here.
# Example: MyFile=town`date +%F` generates e.g. "town2007-05-11" for today.
uuencode -m $MyFile | sendmail  MyMail@MyProvider.com

2. Open the file /etc/crontab and add there

0 0 * * * /full/path/to/MyScript

("Run the script at 0:00 everyday")

Hope this gives You a hint what to do. See man pages for all commands for more details.