There are quite a few ways to send email from the Unix command line and so many good reasons for doing so. You might want to provide feedback on automated processes so that you and fellow admins know ...

Why can't the command line "mail" run my mail setup? What do you mean with "mail setup"? A configuration dialogue for your E-Mail client or MTA? (If you mean reading your mail, then "mutt" or "pine" ...

You have thousands of commands at your disposal as a Unix administrator. However, even the most advanced administrators only use a finite number of tools and utilities on an ongoing basis. The ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

Older commands can still be faster—and more flexible, powerful, and accessible too!