Email and filenames

peschkaj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have written a program that logs into a variety of servers and executes a ps for a few different things. It then save the output in a file named File(timestamp).log, where the filename is stored as $filename

I've been trying to incorporate code to email me the file every morning (this will be run as a cron job), and I can't seem to incorpoate the filename.

Anwyay, here is the code I am using now:

$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
           From    =>'peschkaj@bsddev1.qwest.net',
           To      =>'jeremiah.peschka@qwest.com',   
           Subject =>'test message',
           Type    =>'multipart/mixed');
      
$msg->attach(
           Type     =>'TEXT',
           Data     =>"Attached please find the attached attachment");

$msg->attach(
           Type     =>'TEXT',
           Path     =>'$fileName',
           Filename =>'AcLog.txt';
$msg->send;
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jeremiah.peschka@qwest.com

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Re: Email and filenames by earthboundmisfit (Chaplain) on Jul 05, 2001 at 20:29 UTC
Instead of `Path =>'$fileName',` try `Path =>"$fileName",` [download] I believe the single quotes are forcing this to a literal	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Email and filenames by Abigail (Deacon) on Jul 06, 2001 at 02:59 UTC
Or, even better, don't use quotes if all you have is a single scalar. Quoting would bite you hard if the scalar contained a reference. -- Abigail	[reply]
Re: Email and filenames by Beatnik (Parson) on Jul 05, 2001 at 20:30 UTC
try `Path =>"$fileName",` instead, single quotes take literal context, if you use double quotes, the variable is interpolated properly. If you have the variable in `$file` instead of `$fileName`, use `Path =>"${file}Name",`. Same for Filename. Greetz Beatnik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.	[reply] [d/l] [select]