mail command

[viseshu]

Hi All,
I need to attach a document in a mail and send it from HP-UX box to my personal mail id. when i gave the following command,trying to attach abc.txt,
uuencode abc.txt abc.txt |mail id@domain.com,
i could receive the mail but there is no new line in the received file..all the lines gets displayed in a single line with a box as delimeter. Can this be over come?

[Anshumali · Accepted solution]

You forgot
ux2dos abc.txt
Prepend this before your command and pipe the output to your command mentioned above.

ux2dos abc.txt|uuencode abc.txt abc.txt |mail id@domain.com

Should solve it for you.

:)
Anshu

[whiteknight]

Hi viseshu,

Here is the steps

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en&docId=emr_na-c01028039-2



WK

[viseshu]

Hi Anshu, thnks for ur reply. But unfortunately, giving ux2dos command is resulting in the same error. Should the reciepient use uudecode to decode it?? If so is there any alternative as im sending mail to personal mail id and they can decode that.

[AwadheshPandey]

http://www.uaex.edu/bknox/email_with_attachment.htm

[viseshu]

Hello WK,
I could not login to the url u have given, please help me out.

Thanks

[Dennis Handly]

I also found that wordpad will read UNIX formatted .txt files.

>Anshu: ux2dos abc.txt|uuencode abc.txt abc.txt |mail id@domain.com

When you want uuencode to take it from stdin, you only want one filename:
ux2dos abc.txt | uuencode abc.txt | mail id@domain.com

[Anshumali]

Here are the commands i used:

uuencode /tmp/abc.txt abc.txt | mailx -m -s "hi" id@domain.com

Your issue replicated.File as attachment with square as attachement.

but with

ux2dos abc.txt | uuencode abc.txt| mailx -m -s "hi" id@domain.com

No issue. File received in redable format without squares.

could you use the above and let me know the result. I used mailx if you noticed!!

use mailx and test. Post Results.....

PS: Please assign points if this solves. I hope i would. :)

Anshu

[Anshumali]

You are right Dennis!
In my above example i did that..... ;)

Thanks for pointing out.

[Anshumali]

viseshu,

Dennins is correct in saying that wordpad reads the same file sucessfully while notepad isnt able to and shows squares.

You may open it with wordpad w/o issues. But most of the time default file assignment of txt files are with notepad. :)

Cheers!!
Anshu

[whiteknight]

Viseshu,

Same document as Ashu given. Please link your ITRC system handle, so that you can access to our knowledge base.

WL

[Dennis Handly]

>giving ux2dos command is resulting in the same error.

My previous reply had the solution.
Basically, pipe/stdin is ignored on most commands if you specify a file on the command line.

[whiteknight]

Viseshu,

Same document as Ashu given. Please link your ITRC system handle, so that you can access to our knowledge base.

WK

[viseshu]

Thank you Anshu/Dennis for the help.
Using ux2dos abc.txt | uuencode abc.txt|mail id@domain.com, work is done but i can see one square in last line of the txt document. Can this square be suppressed. :(

[Dennis Handly]

>I can see one square in last line of the txt document. Can this square be suppressed?

ux2dos(1) adds a control-Z to the end for DOS. But you are using windows and it no longer likes that.

I suppose you can use tr(1) to remove it:
ux2dos abc.txt | tr -d '\032' | uuencode abc.txt | mail id@domain.com

[Anshumali]

translatin/ deleting the character should be ok . It works fine.
Still, i prefer to use wordpad. ;)
Thanks Dennins for wordpad enlightment!!

Anshu

[viseshu]

Thanks for the help Dennis/Anshu
Its done!!!!