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How to attach a file using mail command on Linux? [duplicate]
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I am writing a shell script
to send an email using Linux Mailx
, the email must contain a file attachment and a message body.
Currently sending an email with an attachment:
output.txt | mail -s "Daily Monitoring" james@dell.com
I wish to add a message body. How should i?
Linux Mailx:
mail [-eIinv] [-a header] [-b addr] [-c addr] [-s subj] to-addr
The usual way is to use uuencode
for the attachments and echo
for the body:
(uuencode output.txt output.txt; echo "Body of text") | mailx -s 'Subject' user@domain.com
For Solaris and AIX, you may need to put the echo
statement first:
(echo "Body of text"; uuencode output.txt output.txt) | mailx -s 'Subject' user@domain.com
The best way is to use mpack!
mpack -s "Subject" -d "./body.txt" "././image.png" mailadress
mpack - subject - body - attachment - mailadress
Try this it works for me:
(echo "Hello XYX" ; uuencode /export/home/TOTAL_SI_COUNT_10042016.csv TOTAL_SI_COUNT_10042016.csv ) | mailx -s 'Script test' abc@xde.com
Johnsyweb's answer didn't work for me, but it works for me with Mutt:
echo "Message body" | mutt -s "Message subject" -a myfile.txt recipient@domain.com
You can try this:
(cat ./body.txt)|mailx -s "subject text" -a "attchement file" receiver@domain.com
On RHEL Linux, I had trouble getting my message in the body of the email instead of as an attachment . Using od -cx, I found that the body of my email contained several /r. I used a perl script to strip the /r, and the message was correctly inserted into the body of the email.
mailx -s "subject text" me@yahoo.com < 'body.txt'
The text file body.txt contained the char \r, so I used perl to strip \r.
cat body.txt | perl success.pl > body2.txt
mailx -s "subject text" me@yahoo.com < 'body2.txt'
This is success.pl
while (<STDIN>) {
my $currLine = $_;
s?\r??g;
print
}
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