RE: awk and ksh question - solved

> -----Original Message-----
> Those are the companies that you'd use the $HOME/.mailrc for.
>

Ah yes .... TMTOWTDI

Since I have multiple scripts that do things and monitor things, the list of mail and/or pager recipients is different for different things, even within a single script. As a general philosophy on scripting, I like to keep things as self-contained as reasonably practical. I think this reduces the Murphy Factor; and it makes it more obvious, when going to a directory for a script, after not looking at the script for months, what stuff is required for the script to do its thing -- it's all right there in that directory. So I usually put larger scripts along with their config files in their own directory.

If there are variables that we know we want to share among all scripts regardless of who wrote the script, we keep those in a file called ORACLE_VARIABLES (imaginative name, huh?). And one of those variables is a list of mail recipients for scripts that want to send to that list of recipients. The script code for pulling that list out of the text file is very simple.

TMTOWDI.

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Author: Stephen Lee
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