[ILUG] sending a file via email with a script

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:57:05PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Jeremy Smyth thought:
> 
> 
> > Using a script. How can i send a file as an attachment 
> > via email. Cannot seen anything in the
> > sendmail book.
> 
> <reply mode="lyda">
> 
> 1 - it's in the archives about a month ago

That was for me.

> 2 - mutt -a attach.file -s "Subject" recipient at domain.com < /dev/null
> or replace /dev/null with a file containing the body text of the mail
> </reply>

Of course, i didn't have mutt available on the machine in question so I
was stuck with using mail.  I found mimencode didn't work in any easy
fashion so I ended up using uuencode.  It went something like this:

uuencode <File to attach> <Name of file in email message> | mail -s <subject> <recipient at domain>

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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)