How can i send information from unix as attached file?

[Manuales]

how can i send a file from unix operating systme as a file attached? i mean, as a .txt file ....

please let me know ...
i mean , i have problems, one file than i'm sending with mail command contains "~" and it is beind sent incompleted ... it missed this part:
~MO*1*17~Iaa*1*88888843535435*JOOJKD~
also it is saying: Unknown tilde escape.

i want to send it as attached file, how can i do that.

[Steven Schweda · Accepted solution]

You might try a forum search for things like:

hp-ux mail attachment
or:
hp-ux mail attachment mpack

The key is to use a program like uuencode or
mpack to encode the file data into
e-mail-safe ASCII characters.

Many people seem to use uuencode instead of
mpack, but I like the more modern mpack.
(But I don't do this much.)

This one looked useful to me, for example:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1055549

[Senthil Kumar .A_1]

hi,

Try this,

uuencode a.txt a.txt | mail manuales@mailbox.com

SK

[Manuales]

Thanks a lot Steven !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


THANKS !!!!!

[Manuales]

STEVEN,
This did not work:

ux2dos /path_to/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt | mailx -m -s "MAIL FROM Someone" someone@somewhere.com <
file_for_email_body

it works but with no attached file :(

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

can you try this instead:
export emailadd="someone@somewhere.com"
export subject="MAIL FROM Someone"
export convertedFile="/tmp/some_file.txt"
export sourceFile="/path_to/some_file"

/usr/bin/ux2dos $sourceFile > $convertedFile

/usr/bin/uuencode $covertedFile "some_file.txt"|mailx -m -s "$subject" $emailadd1


hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Rasheed Tamton]

uuencode myfile.doc myfile.doc | mailx -m -s "with attachment" mailid@yourmail.com

If you still get problems, just check the below program base64

http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/

[Steven Schweda]

> it works but with no attached file :(

Did you try looking at what comes out of the
pipeline at various stages?

ux2dos /path_to/some_file

ux2dos /path_to/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt

(What was this supposed to do? "man
uuencode"?)

[Senthil Kumar .A_1]

Hi Steven,

uuencode accepts 2 options. If you give only 1 option, it will hang. One option is the file attachment itself the other option , the name to be used for the attachment. in your case, since it is a.txt, hence...

uuencode a.txt a.txt | mail "you_mail_id"

Note, if you attache, you need not do a unix2dos conversion...

SK