How to use mailx to send file as text and add extra text to email body?

Question

How to send some text in email along with the contents of the file, don't want to send file as an attachment? is it possible via mailx command?

mailx -s "Email log file" abc@mail.com <$log_file;

$log_file contents gets emailed but below doesn't work

echo "Comment: log contains last month report" | mailx -s "Email log file" abc@mail.com < $log_file

Needed output in email:

Comment: Log contains last month report

 <All contents of $LOG_FILE as text>

Probably duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2282506/how-can-i-send-an-email-through-unix-mailx-command. At least, that link answers the question — mpez0, Jan 20 '15 at 22:15

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 18 '16 at 22:58

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Here is how you would do it:

echo "Comment: log contains last month report\n $(cat \$log_file)" | mailx -s "Email log file" abc@mail.com

The only thing "funny" is you'll have to escape that $ in the filename. You can also add more new lines \n if need be.

answered Apr 18 '16 at 22:58

JeffM

Brilliant sir. Thank you. – arcee123 Oct 16 '18 at 18:16
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Embedding the `cat` in the `echo` is weird and inefficient. You want `( echo "Comment blah blah"; cat "$log_file" ) | mailx -s "Email log file" abc@example.net` – tripleee Aug 14 '19 at 14:07

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