Re: How to put email addresses in a variable and send mails via mailx command

Your problem is use of single-quotes which do not interpolate any variables ...

... '|/bin/mailx -s "Happy Birthday" $email' ...
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... so reverse the quotes used: qq{|/bin/mailx ... $mail_addr}.

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Re^2: How to put email addresses in a variable and send mails via mailx command by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Dec 24, 2015 at 17:45 UTC
... or use explicit string concatenation, which is messier IMHO, but should work just as well: `open(MAILPIPE,'\|/bin/mailx -s "Happy Birthday" ' . $email) or die "Can't open pipe $!";` Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How to put email addresses in a variable and send mails via mailx command by Anonymous Monk on Dec 24, 2015 at 21:45 UTC
but should work just as well: both versions are vulnerable to shell interpolation	[reply]
Re^4: How to put email addresses in a variable and send mails via mailx command by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Dec 24, 2015 at 22:42 UTC
both versions are vulnerable to shell interpolation How so? Can you please give an example? Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: How to put email addresses in a variable and send mails via mailx command by Anonymous Monk on Dec 24, 2015 at 22:50 UTC
Re^6: How to put email addresses in a variable and send mails via mailx command by Anonymous Monk on Dec 24, 2015 at 22:54 UTC