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uuencode send attachments

Problem

You want to send an attachment, from UNIX command line or from within a shell script

Problem	Solution	Example	Reference	Recommended
cat filename \| uuencode wat_u_want_attatch_2b_called.ext \| mail -s "this is the subject and here is wat u want attach 2b called" email_addr Simple as that, it will send the filename as an attachment to a blank email, with your subject. Here is a demo: cat index.php \| uuencode index.php \| mail -s "test uuencode" junk@techie-blogs.com To do multiple attachments, simply cat files - then uuencode them into a temp file. Like this: cat file1.doc \| uuencode attach1.doc > /tmp/send1.doc Repeat this for say file2 into attach2 and send2. Then to send them all do this: cat /tmp/send[0-9].doc \| mail -s "your subj" youraddr

uuencode send attachments

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