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

Depending on your version of linux it may be called mail. To quote @David above:

mail -s "Backup" -a mysqldbbackup.sql backup@email.com < message.txt

or also:

cat message.txt | mail -s "Backup" -a mysqldbbackup.sql backup@email.com