How to send email with attachment in Unix

Question

I am trying to send an email with 2 attachment by running a shell script. Below is the code:

echo "hi attached is the xml file requested.regards Team."| mailx -a this/is/the/path/tools/v2/xml/bad_out/0106_out.xml,this/is/the/path/tools/v2/xml/bad_out/0107_out.xml muc@tm.com,ti@b.com

Below is the error i am getting:

mail: invalid option -- a
Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
            [-- sendmail-options ...]
       mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
       mail [-iInNv] [-u user]

I also tried same code with just one attachment and it is still giving me the same error.I also want the body to not be in a single line but be in this format :

Hi
Attached is the xml file as requested.
Regards
Team.

Does this answer your question? [send email with attachment using Unix](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44143562/send-email-with-attachment-using-unix) — Digvijay S, Mar 12 '20 at 10:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '20 at 09:02

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You can try below command:

echo -e "Hi\nAttached is the xml file as requested.\nRegards,\nTeam" | mailx -s "Attachments" -a file1 -a file2 example@domain.com

answered Mar 12 '20 at 09:02

Naveen Hiremath

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I tried the command above and it is still giving me the same error. – Tee Kim Sigauke Muchini Mar 12 '20 at 13:36
That's odd. I tried on Linux 7 and it worked perfectly fine for me. – Naveen Hiremath Mar 12 '20 at 15:36

How to send email with attachment in Unix

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