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Date:      Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:40:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To:        "Dib, Allan L" <Dib.Allan.L@edumail.vic.gov.au>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sending an attachment from the command line
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011100940240.74562-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <AB00AFFA26B4D31183520090276120C77F594B@edu001ms009.edumail.vic.gov.au>

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On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Dib, Allan L wrote:

> Hiya everyone,
> 
> I currently use the very useful 'mail' command from the command line and from
> scripts to e-mail output of a progam. An example:
> 
> ls|mail -s "hello" dib.allan.l@edumail.vic.gov.au
> 
> will e-mail me the output of the 'ls' command with a subject line "hello".
> 
> I need to be able to e-mail a given (binary) file as an attachmentment with a
> similar kind command. I have had no luck with man pages for either sendmail or
> the 'mail' command. For example how would I e-mail someone the file
> /home/allan/test.tar.gz with one command line.
> 
> If anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated. 
> 



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