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mailx:tldr:f36aa
mailx: Send mail with content passed from another command.
$ echo "${content}" | mailx -s "${subject}" ${to_addr}
try on your machine
This command is used to send an email using the mailx
command line utility. Let's break it down:
-
echo "${content}"
: This part echoes the value of the variable${content}
. Theecho
command displays the contents of${content}
in the standard output. -
|
: This is a pipe symbol that connects the output of theecho
command to the input of themailx
command. -
mailx -s "${subject}" ${to_addr}
: This part invokes themailx
command with the following options:-s "${subject}"
: The-s
option is used to specify the email subject."${subject}"
is the value of the${subject}
variable.${to_addr}
: This is the email address of the recipient. It could be an individual email address or multiple addresses separated by a comma.
Overall, this command takes the value of ${content}
as the email body, ${subject}
as the subject, and ${to_addr}
as the recipient's address, and sends the email using the mailx
utility.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.