Re: Looking for a program to email a file as an attachment from command line

[Steve Scherbinski <sski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What kind of file do you want to send?  If the file is is just text, I
believe the commands would pretty much work as you've written them.  

Steve

Dirk H Bartley wrote:
> 
> I would like a command that would email a file as an attachment from the
> command line.  (so that I can run it from cron)
> 
> Sendmail works and you can use the -f command line option to determine
> the from address.
> 
> mail has a -s command line option to determine the subject.  What
> program has a command line option to send the file as an attachment.  It
> could be it's own command like mail or it could pipe into sendmail.
> 
> Ideally it would look like
> 
> newcommand -a file -s subject | sendmail -f fromname@fromdomain
> toname@todomain
> 
> or
> 
> newcommand -a file -s subject | sendmail toname@todomain
> 
> Does such a command exist.
> 
> Dirk