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

metamail has the tool metasend

metasend -f mysqlbackup.sql.gz -t backup@email.com -s Backup -m application/x-gzip -b

Answer 2

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 

Answer 3

I use SendEmail, which was created for this scenario. It's packaged for Ubuntu so I assume it's available

sendemail -f sender@some.where -t receiver@some.place -m "Here are your files!" -a file1.jpg file2.zip

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

Answer 4

using mailx command

 echo "Message Body Here" | mailx -s "Subject Here" -a file_name user@example.com

using sendmail

#!/bin/ksh

fileToAttach=data.txt

`(echo "To: user@company.com"
  echo "Cc: user@company.com"
  echo "From: Application"
  echo "Subject: your subject"
  echo  your body
  uuencode $fileToAttach $fileToAttach
  )| eval /usr/sbin/sendmail -t `;

Answer 5

I use mpack.

mpack -s subject file user@example.com

Unfortunately mpack does not recognize '-' as an alias for stdin. But the following work, and can easily be wrapped in an (shell) alias or a script:

mpack -s subject /dev/stdin loser@example.com < file

Answer 6

From source machine

mysqldump --defaults-extra-file=sql.cnf database | gzip | base64 | mail me@myemail.com

On Destination machine. Save the received mail body as db.sql.gz.b64; then..

base64 -D -i db.sql.gz.b64 | gzip -d | mysql --defaults-extra-file=sql.cnf