Mailing Linux Terminal Help

[scorpio]

Is there a way to use the "mail" in the Linux terminal and not have it ask for body text? I figured out how that "mail (person) -s 'subject'" would do the subject in the first line, but is there a way to do this for the body text?

 

[philg]

If you have the message body in a file you can do

$ mail -s test philip < message.txt

or

$ cat message.txt | mail -s test philip

if you have no message to give someone you can simply do

$ echo | mail -s test philip

 

[scorpio]

Do you know how to attach a file? I keep using "~r filename" but all it does is say that in the subject of the email.

Thanks.

 

[philg]

mail -s Hello -a /path/to/attachment.txt [email]user@somewhere.com[/email]

To view the full range of options and functions of mail, type:

man mail

 

[scorpio]

mail -s Hello -a /path/to/attachment.txt [email]user@somewhere.com[/email]

Could that thing mail directories?

 

[philg]

Wouldn't have thought so, you should either tar the directory and send the tarball or send each file in the directory which is too tedious for my liking