uuencode file.tar.gz file.tar.gz | mail myemail at example.com

dan

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:58:43AM -0500, Tim Wilson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Here's a variation on the theme. I've got a tarred, gzipped file that I'd
> like to send from the command line to my regular email account. Doing
> 
> mail myemail at example.com < file.tar.gz
> 
> sends the message alright, but the file shows up in the body of the message
> (and looking rather scrambled, of course) instead of as an attachment.
> 
> How can I send a file from the command line as an attachment to an email?
> 
> -Tim
> 
> -- 
> Tim Wilson
> Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
> Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy
> mailto: wilson at visi.com   aim: tis270   public key: 0x8C0F8813
> 
> 
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