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[BIS]

Hallo,

I use uuencode to attach files to sendmail in a script.

Suppose I have a file called test.txt, then the following will attach it:
`uuencode test.txt test.txt`

I have to run the script from a cron job, so in the script I include absolute paths. This means that at the uuencode part, it looks like this:
`uuencode /path/to/test.txt /path/to/test.txt`

which works fine... sort of

The problem is that when I do this, the file test.txt has been renamed to pathtotest.txt in the email - why is this? And is there a way around this?

 

[mingis]

cd /path/to
uuencode test.txt test.txt

 

[jad]

as an aside, you could use a program like mpack to send attachments in emails at the prompt. this does MIME encoding, not UUEncoded, but almost all mail clients handle MIME, some nolonger support UUEncode.

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/mime/mpack/ seems to have it.