user scripts: create file with an email in it "<[email protected]>"

OMG I've been beating my head against this for an hour. I'm going to post, and take a break.

Using User Scripts, I want to create a tmp.mail.txt that I can append to while working through my bash script. Then at the end, fire it off via email. The file is supposed to have an email address in it WITH A LESS THAN symbol, and it's giving me grief.

how, oh how, can I get the "<[email protected]>" echo'ed into a file!?!?!?

Here's me struggling

##################################
#prepare Email report
##################################
echo '<user' > tmp.mail.txt
#echo -e "From: TOWER \<user@gmail.com^> symbol" > tmp.mail.txt
#echo -n '>' >> tmp.mail.txt
#echo "To: drew <user\@gmail.com>\nSubject: postgresql backup report" >> tmp.mail.txt
#echo "Date: ($date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H%M")" >> tmp.mail.txt
  
  
FILE="tmp.mail.txt"
echo "*** File - $FILE contents ***"
cat $FILE

rm tmp.mail.txt

Edited February 18, 20242 yr by rutherford