Sending an email using shell script in Oracle Applications

Question

Hi,
I have a pl/sql package which will call a shell script program.The shell script program is written in order to send the invoice hold details of AP as a mail.The parameters to this program are passed in the pl/sql package.
The shell script program has
5 parameters namely
to - email
from - email
hold id - which is a number
hold name - varchar2( free text)
hold reason - varchar2( free text)
the shell script looks as below.
FROM_EMAIL=`echo $1|cut -f9 -d " "|sed 's/\"//g'`
echo "From email id is $FROM_EMAIL" -- From email
TO_EMAIL=`echo $1|cut -f10 -d " "|sed 's/\"//g'`
echo "To Email id is $TO_EMAIL" -- to email
PARAM0=`echo $1 | awk '{print $11}'|sed -e "s/\"//g"`
echo "Param0: $PARAM0" -- hold id
PARAM1=`echo "$1" | cut -d" " -f12-| sed -e "s/\" \"/\"^\"/g" | awk -F'^' '{print $1}'|sed -e "s/\"//g"`
echo "Param1: $PARAM1" -- hold name
PARAM2=`echo "$1" | cut -d" " -f13-| sed -e "s/\" \"/\"^\"/g" | awk -F'^' '{print $1}'|sed -e "s/\"//g"`
echo "Param2: $PARAM2" -- hold reason
the values that am passinf to this program are if suppose
from email ---- [email protected]
to email [email protected]
12345 ------ hold id
test hold name ------ hold name
test hold reason ------- hold reason

Answer 1

Is there a question here?
In any case you could easily have done this inside the database using UTL_SMTP.