send a mail in command line in Ubuntu

Reading Time: < 1 minute By default the binary "mail" is not installed on Ubuntu. At least it’s not on my brand new Ubuntu 10.10.
You need to setup the package mailutils.

apt-get install mailutils

Then you can send an email using the command line:

ls | mail blabla@gmail.com
Reading Time: < 1 minute

 By default the binary "mail" is not installed on Ubuntu. At least it’s not on my brand new Ubuntu 10.10.
You need to setup the package mailutils.

apt-get install mailutils

Then you can send an email using the command line:

ls | mail blabla@gmail.com

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