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

using mailx command

 echo "Message Body Here" | mailx -s "Subject Here" -a file_name user@example.com

using sendmail

#!/bin/ksh

fileToAttach=data.txt

`(echo "To: user@company.com"
  echo "Cc: user@company.com"
  echo "From: Application"
  echo "Subject: your subject"
  echo  your body
  uuencode $fileToAttach $fileToAttach
  )| eval /usr/sbin/sendmail -t `;