Re: CLI Mail Attachments

In alt.os.linux Robert Hull <Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
In alt.os.linux, on Fri 26 May 2006 15:45, Dan N
<dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2006 12:45:30 +0100, Robert Hull wrote:

So you don't think that attaching a file to the message is anything
to do with attachments?

The *second* option given states:

-a file
Attach the given file to the message.

Don't know why, but I've got something quite different:

-a Specify additional header fields on the command line such as
[..]

In that case, my apologies, we must have different programs installed
under the same name :-(

Strange enough my man page doesn't even know the "-a" switch as
expected the app doesn't know it either.

$ mail -a
mail: invalid option -- a

Mail belongs to the mailx package on my box:
$ rpm -qf `which mail`
mailx-8.1.1-31.EL3

Guess there are various versions and perhaps compiled different
on each distro?

However it's amazing enough that none in this thread thought about
the most obvious.

$ man -k diff

DH_check (3ssl) - generate and check Diffie-Hellman parameters
DH_check [DH_generate_parameters] (3ssl) - generate and check Diffie-Hellman parameters
DH_compute_key (3ssl) - perform Diffie-Hellman key exchange
DH_compute_key [DH_generate_key] (3ssl) - perform Diffie-Hellman key exchange
DH_generate_key (3ssl) - perform Diffie-Hellman key exchange
DH_generate_key [DH_compute_key] (3ssl) - perform Diffie-Hellman key exchange
DH_generate_parameters (3ssl) - generate and check Diffie-Hellman parameters
DH_generate_parameters [DH_check] (3ssl) - generate and check Diffie-Hellman parameters
DH_size (3ssl) - get Diffie-Hellman prime size
MPI_Group_difference (3) - Makes a group from the difference of two groups
QIconSet [qiconset] (3qt) - Set of icons with different styles and sizes
bzcmp [bzdiff] (1) - compare bzip2 compressed files
bzdiff (1) - compare bzip2 compressed files
bzdiff [bzcmp] (1) - compare bzip2 compressed files
clockdiff (8) - measure clock difference between hosts
combinediff (1) - create a cumulative unified patch from two incremental patches
dehtmldiff (1) - get usable diff from an HTML page
dh (3ssl) - Diffie-Hellman key agreement
diff (1) - find differences between two files
diff3 (1) - find differences between three files
diffpp (1) - pretty-print diff outputs with GNU enscript
diffstat (1) - make histogram from diff-output
difftime (3) - calculate time difference
editdiff [rediff] (1) - fix offsets and counts of a hand-edited diff
espdiff (1) - apply the appropriate transformation to a set of patches
fdim (3) - positive difference
filterdiff (1) - extract or exclude diffs from a diff file
fixcvsdiff (1) - fix problematic diff files
flipdiff (1) - exchange the order of two incremental patches
gendiff (1) - utility to aid in error-free diff file generation
grepdiff (1) - show files modified by a diff containing a regex
groff_diff (7) - differences between GNU troff and classical troff
interdiff (1) - show differences between two diff files
lsdiff (1) - show which files are modified by a patch
multiplexer: splits mode requests into calls to different
handlers. [netsnmp_multiplexer] (3) - The multiplexer helper
lets you split the calling chain depending on the calling mode
(get vs getnext vs set). More..
mysqld_multi (1) - is meant for managing several mysqld
processes running in different UNIX sockets and TCP/IP ports
patch (1) - apply a diff file to an original
pdiff (1) - produce a pretty comparison between files
pnmpsnr (1) - compute the difference between two images (the PSNR)
rcsdiff (1) - compare RCS revisions
rd-bomb (1) - reaction/diffusion textures
recountdiff (1) - recompute patch counts and offsets
rediff (1) - fix offsets and counts of a hand-edited diff
sdiff (1) - find differences between two files and merge interactively
send (n) - Execute a command in a different application
send [Tk::send] (3pm) - Execute a command in a different application
sg (1) - execute command with different group ID
sgmldiff (1) - Find differences in the markup of two SGML files
splitdiff (1) - separate out incremental patches
unwrapdiff (1) - demangle word-wrapped patches
uplevel (n) - Execute a script in a different stack frame
upvar (n) - Create link to variable in a different stack frame
vim [vimdiff] (1) - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
vimdiff (1) - edit two or three versions of a file with Vim and show differences
zcmp [zdiff] (1) - compare compressed files
zdiff (1) - compare compressed files

Looks like there are some machting available .;-)

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