Attach files to an email

[shine67]

Hi,

is there a unix command which I can use to attach, let's say, 5 files (one or more) to an email address? I don't want to send the content of the files as email message but as separate files as we do on MS Outlook on PC.

Thanks in advance,
Shine.

 

[crowe]

uuencode file-to-attach name-of-attachement | mailx -s "this is the subject" someone@somewhere.com

this will attach a single file, not sure about how to attach 5.

crowe

 

[julianbarnett]

(uuencode $FILE1 $FILE1; uuencode $FILE2 $FILE2) | mail -s "$SUBJECT" $MAILTO

For multiple files within the message.

For attachments see

http://www3.primushost.com/~kylet/unix-att.html

see the 'Bourne Shell Code' link on the above website for a way to hand craft multiple MIME attachments using a standard shell script

 

[SamBones]

Wow! I just answered this same question in another forum. Here's how to send a bunch of attachments, including a nice little message...

If you have a bunch of files to be sent as attachments, you just uuencode them all. Say you have a directory full of files you want to send. Say they all end with the extension .txt. You would send them all in the same email as follows...

#!/bin/ksh

export TOADDR=name@email.com
export FROMDIR=/somedir

cd ${FROMDIR}

( cat <<-TEXT
Hi,

Please find enclosed all of the text files found
in the directory ${FROMDIR} as of $(date).

Sincerly, $(grep $(whoami) /etc/passwd| cut -d: -f5)
TEXT

for FNAME in *.txt
do
   uuencode ${FNAME} ${FNAME}
done
) | mailx -s &quot;${FROMDIR}/*.txt as of $(date)&quot; ${TOADDR}

This example exen gives a nice little message along with the email.

Hope this helps.

 

[HHG]

Hi Sam,

I have just used your script but I am getting the following messages, any ideas what it could be: -


The flags you gave are used only when sending mail.
Usage: mailx -eiIUdFntBNHvV~ -T FILE -u USER -h hops -r address
-s SUBJECT -f FILE users
uuencode: ISO8859-15 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument
# uuencode: ISO8859-15 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument
uuencode: ISO8859-15 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument
uuencode: ISO8859-15 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument
uuencode: ISO8859-15 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument


Hope you can help. Thanks