mpack description (-d) from a script variable

Question

In my script I have a variable named $message. I want to send this message together with a jpeg using mpack.

One way that works:

echo "$message" > myText
mpack -s "test mail" -d myText myImage.jpg [email protected]

However, I would like to dispense with writing the file myText and directly pass the contents of $message to the -d parameter.

How can this be done?

BTW: My $message variable contains two sub-strings separated by a linefeed.

markb · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-31 22:53:07Z

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Figured it out. A named pipe did the trick:

mkfifo fifo
echo "$message" > fifo &
mpack -s "test mail" -d fifo myImage.jpg [email protected]
rm fifo

answered Dec 31, 2015 at 22:53

markb

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