BIABAM(1)

💌 BIABAM(1) — the bash attachment mailer

okay bestie, listen up, because this little command is iconic and you're gonna love it. this is the manpage for biabam, aka biabam is a bash attachment mailer — it literally just does one thing and does it slayfully: it takes files off your disk and mails them as attachments. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

biabam filename[,filename2...]  [-s subject] recipient[,recipient2...]

that's the shape of it, queen. files first, then optionally a subject, then who you're sending to. periodt. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea. every filename you hand over gets mailed out to all the recipients you listed. all of them. everybody eats. 🍓

the body of the message — you know, the actual words, the little paragraph above the attachments — gets read from standard input. so you pipe it in, or type it, whatever.

and if you pipe nothing into biabam? it's not gonna get mad, it's just gonna sit there patiently waiting for you to type text on standard input. when you're done typing, finish with CTRL-D. that's your signal that you're done, babe. 🦋

by default, the comma , character is the separator for both attachments and recipients. so don't go putting commas in your filenames thinking it's cute, because biabam will absolutely read that as two files. iykyk. 💀

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here's exactly how you'd do it, copy-paste and all:

 echo "Here are the tarballs you requested" | \
  biabam foobar-0.7.8.tar.gz,coolapp-0.4.3.tar.gz,otherapp-4.3.0.tar.gz
\
  -s "Answer to your request"
john@doe.org,irene@prima.org,cira@alpispa.es

see how the message body gets echo'd in, three tarballs get comma-split, -s sets the subject, and then the three recipients get comma-split too? chef's kiss. main character energy, honestly. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manpage was originally written by Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org> for the Debian distribution of biabam. 🫶

and the main author of biabam itself is Mads Martin Jørgensen</> <mmj@mmj.dk>. legends, both of them. 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was BIABAM(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 16 January 2003. go send somebody a tarball, you've got this. 💖✨🎀