How to send a zip file using UUENCODE on unix

Question

I need to send an email with an attachment in the form of a zip file (containing several files with zipped) using UUENCODE on UNIX (ksh). The letter should be sent to several users subject and mailbox. I tried with UUENCODE using the command below, but it does not work.

uuencode $zip_name $zip_name.zip | mailx -s "Mail Subject" "[e-mail]" 

- where $zip_name is name of the zip file.

How should I do it?

Thanks Arun

Answer 1

Most likely, you get too much data for the mail body. Try to use split(1)it to share it or even better look on the Internet at various incarnations sharand make a shar file. Many of them will automatically split the file.

UUENCODE/UUDECODE sharutils.

Answer 2

, . .

zip_name=some_file.zip
MESSAGE_BODY="Some text."
(printf "%s\n%s\n" "$MESSAGE_BODY"; uuencode $zip_name $zip_name)| mailx -s "${SUBJECT}" $TO

Answer 3

Here is the solution

echo "Your message" | uuencode "/home/ubuntu/test.zip" | mailx -s 'Your Subject' [e-mail]