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

This is how I am doing with one large log file in CentOS:

MAIL="`whereis mail | awk '{print $2}'`"
WHOAMI="`whoami`"
HOSTNAME="`hostname`"
EMAIL"your@email.address"
LOGDIR="/var/log/aide"
LOGNAME="`basename "$0"`_`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M"`"
# Arhiveerime ning kui hästi, saadame edasi:
/bin/tar -zcvf ${LOGDIR}/${LOGNAME}.tgz "${LOGDIR}/${LOGNAME}.log" > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    cd ${LOGDIR}
    # This works too. The message content will be taken from text file below
    # echo 'Hello!' >/root/scripts/audit_check.sh.txt
    # echo "Arhiivifail manuses" | ${MAIL} -s "${HOSTNAME} Aide report" -q /root/scripts/audit_check.sh.txt -a ${LOGNAME}.tgz -S from=${WHOAMI}@${HOSTNAME} ${EMAIL}
    echo "Arhiivifail manuses" | ${MAIL} -s "${HOSTNAME} Aide report" -a ${LOGNAME}.tgz -S from=${WHOAMI}@${HOSTNAME} ${EMAIL}
    /bin/rm "${LOGDIR}/${LOGNAME}.log"
fi