Why are the two results dfferent?

[volcano]

Hello guys and gals, I have prepared a command to execute in Solaris OS. There are 2 files which contain my command. The command in both files is the same, but I wonder very much why the first file executes successfully but the second one fails:

First file contains:
( uuencode file1 file1; uuencode file2 file2; ) | mailx -s "test1" abc@abc.com


Second file contains:
LIST="uuencode file1 file1l uuencode file2 file2;"
echo `( $LIST ) | mailx -s "test2" abc@abc.com`


Thank you

 

[volcano]

Sorry, there is a typing error. The updated one is as follows:


First file contains:
( uuencode file1 file1; uuencode file2 file2; ) | mailx -s "test1" abc@abc.com


Second file contains:
LIST="uuencode file1 file1; uuencode file2 file2;"
echo `( $LIST ) | mailx -s "test2" abc@abc.com`

 

[J1mbo]

How about this:

LIST=`(uuencode file1 file1; uuencode file2 file2`
echo $LIST | mailx -s "test2" abc@abc.com`

-jim

 

[volcano]

Thanks Jimbo!
I tried the code. It can send me a email. But the email contains lots of unknown text....maybe my attachments are not encoded correctly by UUENCODE?

Thank you!

 

[volcano]

My problem is finally solved. Thank bluelake for his/her help. His/her solution is as follows (which was posted in SUN Solaris forum) :

#!/usr/bin/sh
(uuencode file1 file1;uuencode file2 file2)>list
cat list |mailx -s "test2" huxu@cn.fujitsu.com

Besides, I would appreciate SamBones, J1mbo, pmcmicha, Annihilannic and julianbarnett very much for your great help too! I am so happy all of you could spend some time answering my questions~