"yusuf" <yusufm@gmail.com> writes:

> Currently, I send the contents of a file by mail by typing:
>
> mail someone@somewhere.com < some.file
>
> But I can't type my own message using the above command to send with
> the file. I checked the command line options for mail and there doesn't
> seem to be an attachment parameter. Does anyone know how I can do this
> through the command line?

Take a look at Shelldorado it has scripts to do things like that.

http://www.shelldorado.com/

Joe