The mail command can be used under Linux or UNIX bash / ksh / csh shell to send an email. To send a message to one or more people, mail can be invoked with arguments which are the names of people to whom the mail will be sent. You are then expected to type in your message, followed by an ‘control-D’ at the beginning of a line. However, using the following syntax one can send email easily:
mail -s ‘Subject’ you@example.com Sample Shell Script
Here is what you need to put in a shell script:
#!/bin/bash # script to send simple email # email subject SUBJECT="SET-EMAIL-SUBJECT" # Email To ? EMAIL="admin@somewhere.com" # Email text/message EMAILMESSAGE="/tmp/emailmessage.txt" echo "This is an email message test"> $EMAILMESSAGE echo "This is email text" >>$EMAILMESSAGE # send an email using /bin/mail /bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $EMAILMESSAGE
See also: Sending mail with attachment from command line/shell