Monday, February 4, 2013

attach a file in an email

Mail (or, mailx) is a convenient utility for sending and receiving emails on unix/linux systems.Here is a tip on how to send an email with an attachment.

To send an email with message stored in file MailBody and a picture in file Pic.jpg as an attachment, we type:

(cat MailBody; uuencode Pic.jpg Pic.jpg)|mail -s "Subject of this mail" someone@some.where.com

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