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Formatting code for blogger

CODE Copy the below code snippet: ------------------------- COPY FROM BELOW ------------------------- <pre style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px dashed rgb(153, 153, 153); color: black; font-family: Andale Mono, Lucida Console, Monaco, fixed, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; width: 100%; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <code style="color: black; overflow-wrap: normal; word-wrap: normal;"> INPUT YOUR CODE HERE (SHELL, PYTHON, JAVA etc.,) </code></pre> ------------------------- END OF COPY ------------------------- Shell Command (bash) example: $ sendEmail -t "&lt;TO_EMAIL&gt;" -f "&lt;FROM&gt;" -u "&lt;SUBJECT&gt;" [-cc "&lt;EMAIL_IN_CC&gt;" -bcc "&lt;EMAIL_IN_BCC&gt;"] -o message-content-type=html -o message-file="&lt;INPUT_FILE_NAME&gt;" -a "&lt;FILE_TO_BE_ATTACHED&gt;"

SendEmail - the best option for emails on Linux

After any automation or scripting task is complete, I am sure some of them would need to email the output or alert to your mailbox. Linux does provide a few basic tools/utilities to cater to that requirement such as mailx or sendmail. However, their capabilities are limited to sending emails in text. But the need of the hour, if I may say so, is to have formatted emails with tables, highlighting and underlining words, attachments, the whole shebang! In other words, emails should be sent in HTML format which can have all these features and much more.  Though there are methods available to send emails using sendmail or mailx (using uuencode etc.,) they are quite cumbersome and convoluted. That's where "sendemail" utility comes in. It can send html emails so easily and with attachments as well. The software is described as "a lightweight tool written in Perl for sending SMTP email from the console". Some flavours of Linux provide it as a package (like Ubuntu, Kali