uuencode

[Don Bentz]

I am trying to use uuencode to compress a large pdf file and generate an ouptut file that can be attached to an email. When I simply enter "uuencode filename" the output (as the man page says) goes to my screen. I can't seem to redirect it to an output file. When I enter "uuencode filename outfile" the same thing happens and "outfile" is empty. When I enter "uuencode filename > outfile" nothing seems to be happening.

[RAC_1]

I played with command for a while. This command works for me.

uuencode file_name file_name.txt > what_ever_file_name_you_want

Anil

[Darren Prior]

Hi Don,

When you say nothing is happening when you redirect the output to a file - does the shell prompt return or is the uuencode just hanging?

If the prompt returns have a look and see if outfile exists...

regards,

Darren.

[Rodney Hills · Accepted solution]

uuencode inputfile remotename >outputfile

inputfile - file to read from
remotename - file name to embed in the result
outputfile - result of uuencode

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Don Bentz]

Darren - the shell prompt does not return. It appears to be just hanging. When I look at the process in glance and check "open files" I see only 1 write for the "output" file and there is no other disk activity for it.

[Darren Prior]

Hmmm - when you sent the output to the screen, roughly how long did it take to complete? Or did you hit Ctrl-C after a little bit?

What size is the input file?

regards,

Darren.

[Don Bentz]

Rodney - thanks for your reply. This worked as you described - 10 for you! Darren - I waited until it ended. How long - kinda, but not materially annoying. Now the only problem is how to get that ".PDF" file usable as a mail attachment! So far I seem to get the "skunk eye" from Acrobat, - "file is corrupted or unrecognizable". BUT, the uuencode question was resolved. Thanks again.

[Steven E. Protter]

I would do this.

use gzip to compress the file and the script I'm attaching to send the attachment. The script is well documented and includes multi word subject sentences.

This script could be modified to gzip the file as well. Its just one line of code and then changing the two parameters that deal with filename.

SEP

[Rita C Workman]

Well...bypassing the whole thing about compression...I just did a little test with my favorite utility to mail files as attachments....Yes the include statement.

I created an include file with 1 line....

[include /opt/perf/paperdocs/gp/C/GP-install.pdf application/adobe base64]

Since I knew this was a pdf file...and it was small enough so that our GroupWise Admin would allow it to pass through...See we relay off GroupWise and he has alot of restrictions on it...

But...lo and behold, up popped my email with the pdf file sitting all nice and neat as an attachment - and sure enough when I clicked on it...Adobe Glance Plus for (10.20 and 11.x)

Oh well...just thought I'd throw this into the mix..

Regards,
Rita

[Don Bentz]

Thanks for the reply, Rita. Unfortunately the issue has to do (apparently) with the sheer "mass" of some of the "lines" in the pdf file we're sending. Our homegrown utility, which builds MIME headers and sends email using sendmail with attachments, works just fine with OTHER pdfs and no specific "Content-type", etc. coding. The files we're trying to send have huge graphics images generated using Adobe Illustrator. So far I've tried to do it using "uuencode", unfortunately Adobe doesn't recognize these on the receiving end.