[SWLUG] mail command

[Foeh Mannay]

Hi,

I always found that 

mail -s "subect line here" recipient < file-containing-body

worked fine for me - I don't know if it's just Red Hat being fluffy though?

Foeh

On Sunday 26 Jan 2003 5:43 am, bascule wrote:
> ok this is doing my head in,
> how do i get mail to not be interactive, i just want to have a one line
> command run when i tell it to that sends an email to a local user, only the
> mail command insists on waiting to be told who to cc to!
> plus there is no way to specify the message body in the command line though
> i can just use the subject for that, surely this stuff is basic?
> i keep reading on google that
> $mail -s "subject" bascule
> will do the trick, but i have to ctrl-d twice to get it sent
>
> bascule