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RE: command to send mail



Patrick Kirchner wrote:

> I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I've always done this:
> 
> mutt -s SubjectHere -a /path/to/attachment someone@somewhere.com <
> /dev/null
> 
> It's nice because the e-mail just goes with the attachment and
> no further prompts are needed, but how does the "email_body" fit into
> this?
> 
> If I try Eric's example I'm told:
> 
> -bash: email_body: No such file or directory

email_body is the text of the email you want to send (outside the attachment). 
The redirection operator ( < ) tells bash to use that text as STDIN to mutt.

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