Help needed for Small Script.

[Mark Blonde]

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

[Rodney Hills]

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

[Mark Blonde]

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 ?

[Rodney Hills · Accepted solution]

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