How do I send a file as an email attachment using Linux command line?

Question

I\'ve created a script that runs every night on my Linux server that uses mysqldump to back up each of my MySQL databases to .sql files and packages them togeth

Answer 1

metamail has the tool metasend

metasend -f mysqlbackup.sql.gz -t backup@email.com -s Backup -m application/x-gzip -b