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 mail command options (check it with man mail) and version you could do

echo yourBody|mail -s yoursubject -A /your/attachment/file john@doe.com