Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

[James Bonnet]

echo $MSG | mail -s "Mailtest" foo at bar.com

-jim


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>I tried:
>export MSG="Some Message"
>mail -s "Mail Test" tim at thewunders.org < /bin/echo $MSG
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>And I get the contents of the file /bin/echo :-(
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>I also tried 
>mail -s "Mail Test" tim at thewunders.org < $MSG
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>And bash tells me "$MSG: ambiguous redirect"
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>Oh well, back to Roger's way and using sendmail, I guess...
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>Tim
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