How to attach a file using mail command on Linux? [duplicate]

Answer 1

mailx might help as well. From the mailx man page:

-a file
     Attach the given file to the message.

Pretty easy, right?

Answer 2

On Linux I would suggest,

# FILE_TO_BE_ATTACHED=abc.gz

uuencode abc.gz abc.gz > abc.gz.enc # This is optional, but good to have
                                    # to prevent binary file corruption.
                                    # also it make sure to get original 
                                    # file on other system, w/o worry of endianness

# Sending Mail, multiple attachments, and multiple receivers.
echo "Body Part of Mail" | mailx -s "Subject Line" -a attachment1 -a abc.gz.enc "youremail@domain.com anotheremail@domain.com"

Upon receiving mail attachment, if you have used uuencode, you would need uudecode

uudecode abc.gz.enc

# This will generate file as original with name as same as the 2nd argument for uuencode.

Answer 3

There are a lot of answers here using mutt or mailx or people saying mail doesn't support "-a"

First, Ubuntu 14.0.4 mail from mailutils supports this:

mail -A filename -s "subject" email@example.com

Second, I found that by using the "man mail" command and searching for "attach"

Answer 4

With mailx you can do:

mailx -s "My Subject"  -a ./mail_att.csv -S from=noreply@foo.com  recipient@bar.com < ./mail_body.txt

This worked great on our GNU Linux servers, but unfortunately my dev environment is Mac OsX which only has a crummy old BSD version of mailx. Normally I use Coreutils to get better versions of unix commands than the Mac BSD ones, but mailx is not in Coreutils.

I found a solution from notpeter in an unrelated thread (https://serverfault.com/questions/196001/using-unix-mail-mailx-with-a-modern-mail-server-imap-instead-of-mbox-files) which was to download the Heirloom mailx OSX binary package from http://www.tramm.li/iWiki/HeirloomNotes.html. It has a more featured mailx which can handle the above command syntax.

(Apologies for poor cross linking linking or attribution, I'm new to the site.)

Answer 5

$ echo | mutt -a syslogs.tar.gz admin@domain.org

But it uses mutt, not mail (or mailx).

Answer 6

Using ubuntu 10.4, this is how the mutt solution is written

echo | mutt -a myfile.zip -- admin@domain.org