发送带有正文的邮件和带有mailx的附件

Question

How do you send an email with both a body and attachment with mailx?

This code will send an email with a body:

cat $body | tr -d \\\\r | mailx -s "SUBJECT" foo@bar.com

tr -d \\\\r is necessary in this case because if the body is not piped through tr , it will send as a .bin attachment (for this particular body). Found the solution to the body sending as .bin here: Use crontab job send mail, The email text turns to an attached file which named ATT00001.bin

I have tried putting -f $attachment after the subject, but am given the error, More than one file given with -f , and the command will not run.

Answer 1

From mailx 's man page :

-a file
          Attach the given file to the message.

-f makes mailx process a file as if it was provided on stdin, so you encountered an error because you were providing data to mailx both through stdin and a file.