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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting mailx -s not sending the file to mail address Post 302423602 by curleb on Friday 21st of May 2010 11:47:55 AM
Old 05-21-2010
Code:
function mailme 
{ 
#  set -x 
   #  This function will forward any local file as an e-mail attachment... 
   #     -> currently only provides a text-formatted attachment. 
   FILE="${1}" 
   ATTACHMENT="${1##*/}" 
   TO="${2:-foo@bar.com}" 
   SUBJECT="MailMe: ${FILE}" 

   if    [[ -z ${FILE} ]] \
      || [[ -z ${ATTACHMENT} ]] 
   then 
      echo "MailMe needs a file to attach..." 
      exit 
   fi 

   print "Mailing: ${ATTACHMENT}... " 2>/dev/null 
   uuencode ${FILE} ${ATTACHMENT} |mailx -s "${SUBJECT}" ${TO} 

   return 
}

Oh, hey...one big caveat with the aforementioned function...it makes no effort to either size the attachment file, or even possibly compress it before mailing. You might want to make sure it wouldn't try to forward something so large it would choke the mail server.

just a thought...
Last edited by curleb; 05-21-2010 at 04:38 PM.. Reason: fine print...
 

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grub2-mkrescue

GRUB-MKRESCUE(3)					     Library Functions Manual						  GRUB-MKRESCUE(3)

NAME

       grub-mkrescue -- Generate a GRUB rescue image using GNU Xorriso.

SYNOPSIS

       grub-mkrescue [-o | --output=FILE] [--modules=MODULES]
		      [--install-modules=MODULES] [--themes=THEMES]
		      [--fonts=FONTS] [--locales=LOCALES]
		      [--compress[=no,xz,gz,lzo]] [-d | --directory=DIR]
		      [--grub-mkimage=FILE] [--rom-directory=DIR]
		      [--xorriso=FILE] [--grub-glue-efi=FILE]
		      [--grub-render-label=FILE] [--label-font=FILE]
		      [--label-color=COLOR] [--label-bgcolor=FILE]
		      [--product-name=STRING] [--product-version=STRING]
		      [--sparc-boot] [--arcs-boot]

DESCRIPTION

       grub-mkrescue can be used to generate a rescue image with the GRUB bootloader.

OPTIONS

       --output=FILE
	      Write the generated file to FILE.  The default is to write to standard output.

       --modules=MODULES
	      Pre-load modules specified by MODULES.

       --install-modules=MODULES
	      Install only MODULES and their dependencies.  The default is to install all available modules.

       --themes=THEMES
	      Install THEMES.  The default is to install the starfield theme, if available.

       --fonts=FONTS
	      Install FONTS.  The default is to install the unicode font.

       --locales=LOCALES
	      Install only locales listed in LOCALES.  The default is to install all available locales.

       --compress[=no,xz,gz,lzo]
	      Compress GRUB files using the specified compression algorithm.

       --directory=DIR
	      Use images and modules in DIR.

       --grub-mkimage=FILE
	      Use FILE as grub-mkimage(1).  The default is /usr/bin/grub-mkimage.

       --rom-directory=DIR
	      Save ROM images in DIR.

       --xorriso=FILE
	      Use FILE as xorriso.

       --grub-glue-efi=FILE
	      Use FILE as grub-glue-efi(3).

       --grub-render-label=FILE
	      Use FILE as grub-render-label(3).

       --label-font=FILE
	      Use FILE as the font file for generated labels.

       --label-color=COLOR
	      Use COLOR as the color for generated labels.

       --label-bgcolor=COLOR
	      Use COLOR as the background color for generated labels.

       --product-name=STRING
	      Use STRING as the product name in generated labels.

       --product-version=STRING
	      Use STRING as the product version in generated labels.

       --sparc-boot
	      Enable booting the SPARC platform.  This disables HFS+, APM, ARCS, and "boot as disk image" on the i386-pc target platform.

       --arcs-boot
	      Enable  ARCS  booting.  This is typically for big-endian MIPS machines, and disables HFS+, APM, sparc64, and "boot as disk image" on
	      the i386-pc target platform.

       --     All options after a -- will be passed directly to xorriso's command line when generating the image.

SEE ALSO

       info grub

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