mailx question - both text in body and attachment

[Daniel Dumont_1]

I am looking for a simple way to have mailx email a message with both text in the body of the email and an attachment.

I am familiar with this to get attachment
ux2dos file | uuencode file | mailx -m -s "subject" emailaddress

I am familiar with this to get text in body
mailx -s "subject" emailaddress < textinbody

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

I couldn't get it to work using mailx, but sendmail worked.

# (echo "Subject: test" ; cat file ; uuencode file file) | /usr/sbin/sendmail you@domain.com

Try it and see if it works for you.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Won't work with mailx

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=7

SEP

[Daniel Dumont_1]

Thanks for your help.
Points assigned.

The sendmail solution worked in my situation.

[Daniel Dumont_1]

On the same subject
Maybe I should put this question in the scripting forum.

At the same time as emailing, I need to replace some characters in "infile".

The below example is doing what I want.
Except I would like to eliminate the creation of "outfile" on the disk.
I am hoping to do in the one command without the "outfile" file ever getting created on disk.
This example gives me "anotherfile" text in the email body and "attfile" as the attachment.

(echo "subject: subjecttext"; tr -d "\036" < infile | tr "\047" "\012" > outfile; cat anotherfile; uuencode outfile attfile) | /usr/sbin/sendmail emailadd

[Dennis Handly]

>I am hoping to do in the one command without the "outfile" file ever getting created on disk.

It may not be worth the complexity if you don't understand the changes. Any reason you care about this extra file?

(echo "subject: subjecttext";
cat anotherfile;
tr -d "\036" < infile | tr "\047" "\012" |
uuencode attfile) | /usr/sbin/sendmail emailadd

[Daniel Dumont_1]

Thanks Dennis.

Worked perfectly.
Exactly what I wanted.

[Steven Schweda]

Of course, if something ever goes wrong with
the long pipeline, debugging anything
'without the "outfile" file ever getting
created on disk' may be difficult. Sometimes
those pesky temporary files can be handy.