Can't figure out how to send ^D (EOT) signal to mailx in bash script

Question

I'm writing a bash script to send me an email automatically. Mailx requires an EOT or ^D signal to know the message body is over and it can send. I don't want to hit ^D on the keyboard when I run script which is what it does now. Here is my code: ``` #! /bin/bash SUBJ="Testing" TO="test@test.com" MSG="message.txt" echo "I am emailing you" >> $MSG echo "Time: `date` " >> $MSG mail -s "$SUBJ" -q "$MSG" "$TO" rm -f message.txt ```

Accepted Answer

If you do not need to add more text and just need to send the content of $MSG, you can replace

```
mail -s "$SUBJ" -q "$MSG" "$TO"
```

with

```
mail -s "$SUBJ" "$TO" < "$MSG"
```

The `EOT` will be implicit in the `<` construct. `-q` is indeed only used to start a message. The rest is supposed to come through stdin.

Can't figure out how to send ^D (EOT) signal to mailx in bash script

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