How do you pull text out of a file and Email it as the body in Redhat?

Question

We have another piece of software saving data into an rtf file. We need to pull that data out and email it as the body of the Email. In SCO Unix we were able to use this:

mailx –s “Subject of email” [email protected] </text.rtf

But now that we are running Redhat the mailx package used is an entirely different package and will only attach the file as an attachment. Any help on this subject is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

We ended up using the mail command instead.

$ mail –s “Subject of email” [email protected] < /text.rtf

some documentation can be found at https://www.binarytides.com/linux-mail-command-examples/ or using the "man mail" command.