Bash Mutt email with attachment error Can't stat : No such file or directory
So i,ve read some other posts and tried out the answers, but i still keep running into this problem so i wanted to post a question here and see if anyone else had any other ideas. Keeping in mind i am pretty new to bash so i am iffy on whats available currently for what i,m looking for.
I am trying to automate a process that creates a file then sends it to me. All the above is fine, until i try to automatically email myself the file.
I have this line of code for it
echo "report" | mutt -- "$USEREMAIL" -s "report" -a "my_scripts/cid_reports/trb345432.csv"
When it tries to run this command it throws an error like
Can't stat my_scripts/cid_reports/trb345432.csv: No such file or directory
my_scripts/cid_reports/trb345432.csv: unable to attach file.
Any ideas on how i can fix this? I thought mutt was good to handle this, I am going to play with the mail feature and see if i can get any success with that.
The system looks to be running
Mutt 1.4.2.2i (2006-07-14)
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -v
Answer
mutt -h
-a <file> [...] -- attach file(s) to the message
The list of files must be terminated with the "--" sequence, so,
echo "hello world" | mutt -s "title" -a /home/test.txt -- ***@**.com
You need to add "--".