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byran cheung 03-31-2014 02:25 AM
Add mail content
 
I use the below command to send mail to user with the attachment file .

#mail -a attach.txt email@domain.com

Would advise if I want to add mail content to the mail , when the user read the mail , the mail content shows today's date ( assume today is Apr 1 , 2014 ) as below , would advise how to change the mail command to do that ? thanks

mail content
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Dear all,
Today is Apr 1 , 2014

TenTenths 03-31-2014 02:43 AM
This:

Code:
echo -e "Dear all,\nToday is $(date +%B\ %e,\ %Y)" | mail -a attach.txt email@domain.com


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