UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

HI

i usually send an a file attachment in a mail from unix like following.

mailx -s 'Job Success' someoner@gmail.com < attachment.log

But I have observed in several threads that we can also use uuencode and uudecode.

What are they? when should we use uudecode and uuencode

please explainin with an example..

thanks in advance
rajesh

With following command, it only redirect the attachment.log content into mail body, whereas with uuencode, it can encode any type of files such as programs, video, images or etc... in textual message to go with email....

mailx -s 'Job Success' someoner@gmail.com < attachment.log

To encode file and output to mailx command
uuencode infile outfile | mailx -s 'Job Success' someoner@gmail.com

For more info, google how email work.... Thanks!