Re: Help with Crontab script?

robert <robertbabula@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hello, I'm rather new to linux and was wondering if someone could
assist me in writing a crontab?

I want to tar a file daily and send it to an email address.

I think I can figure out how to write a crontab to tar the file daily
but how do I write one to email it as an attachment daily? I haven't
quite figured out email in linux yet.

email is done by a program. An old such command line program is called mail

mail -a /path/to/and/name-of.tar -s "name-of.tar on `date`" recipient@xxxxxxxxxxxx

will mail the file /path/to/and/name-of.tar as an attachment to the email
address recipient@xxxxxxxxxxxx with subject "name-of.tar on <data>" where
<date> is the date when the file was sent.

man mail



Thanks for any help.

.

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