topic Help needed for Small Script. in Operating System - HP-UX

Help needed for Small Script.

Mark Blonde — Wed, 15 May 2002 16:44:10 GMT

Hello all,
I was wondering if you can help me with my little script. The purpose of the script is to send me an email with every text file that contains more than 1 line as a seperate attachement. Here is my code.

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#/bin/sh
ls *.txt | while read FILE
do
NL=`wc -l $FILE | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ $NL -gt 1 ]; then
ls $FILE | awk '{ system ("ux2dos " $1 " | uuencode " $1 " | /usr/lib/sendmail " )}'
fi
done
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The problem with that script, is that it sends an email per file. (of course).
I was wondering if you can tell me a way to send 1 email with all txt files as seperate attachements sent.

Thanks

Re: Help needed for Small Script.

Rodney Hills — Wed, 15 May 2002 16:49:55 GMT

First create a file with the following line-

[include test1.txt application/text base64]
[include test2.txt application/text base64]

Second from the command line:
elm -s "your subject" user@yoursite.com

Where "file" contains the necessary [include] lines.

-- Rod Hills

Re: Help needed for Small Script.

Mark Blonde — Wed, 15 May 2002 17:55:01 GMT

The suggestion you have works fine. The only problem is that I don't exactly know how to fix the command ux2dos and/or uuencode so that the txt files sent through email are readable. can you help ?

Re: Help needed for Small Script.

Rodney Hills — Wed, 15 May 2002 19:42:27 GMT

You shouldn't have to worry about using encode on the text (the base64 takes care of that).

The ux2dos will need to be run. So just copy each file to /tmp and email the converted files.

Here is your script updated-
#/bin/sh
cat /tmp/listfiles
ls *.txt | while read FILE
do
NL=`wc -l $FILE | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ $NL -gt 1 ]; then
ux2dos <$FILE >/tmp/${FILE}crlf
echo "[include /tmp/${FILE}crlf application/text base64]" >>/tmp/listfiles
fi
done
elm -s "Here are your files" user@yoursite.com rm /tmp/listfiles
rm /tmp/*crlj

-- Rod Hills