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→INVESTIGATION 3: USING THE MAIL COMMAND TO SEND FILE ATTACHMENTS
# Check your email to see if you received your email message. If you did, what do you notice?<br><br>
# Return to your shell and issue the following Linux command:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">mail yoursenecaid@myseneca.ca < ~/local/thefile.txt</span><br><br>What happened?<br><br>
# Check your email to see if you received your email message. If you did, what do you notice?<br><br>You should have noticed that there was '''NO''' customized '''subject line''', since you redirected stdin from the file, <br>thus there was no ability to send a subject line.<br><br>You can use the '''-s ''' option, followed by text (in quotes) to specify a '''subject line'''.<br><br>
# Return to your shell and issue the following Linux command:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">mail -s "email with attachment" yoursenecaid@myseneca.ca < ~/local/thefile.txt</span><br><br>
# Check your email to see if you received your email message. If you did, what do you notice this time?<br><br>