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Old 05-12-2015
UNIX mail command

I am using HP-UX server. I tried to send the email with attachment, I used the below unix command to send with attachment but it doent work.

Code:
 
uuencode pepsitoday.csv | mailx -s "csv file" ramkumar15@pepsi.com

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I have tried this but still the file is not sent with attachment

Code:
 
uuencode /home/ss/pepsi.csv pepsi.csv | /usr/bin/mailx -s "csv" ramkumar@pepsi.com

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Old 05-12-2015
Did you consider reading the man page (esp.: -a file Attach the given file to the message.) or looking into the proposals at the bottom of this page?
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Old 05-12-2015
Have you done a search on this forum for uuencode or mailx? I would bet that you would find many examples.
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