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Sometimes its useful to send a small reminder, note or even a whole file from the commandline in linux. This is how it goes.

<p>Sometimes its useful to send a small reminder, note or even a whole file from the commandline in linux. This is how it goes.</p>
 
<p>To send just a simple message type:</p>
 
<code class="prettyprint">
echo "e-mail body" | mail -s "e-mail subject" mail@example.com
</code>
 
<p>If you want to send a file type:</p>
 
<code class="prettyprint">
echo "e-mail body" | mail -a /full/path/to/file -s "e-mail subject" mail@example.com
</code>

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