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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Uuencode for mail attachments not working Post 302922656 by Aia on Monday 27th of October 2014 01:23:04 PM
Old 10-27-2014
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Originally Posted by Subbeh
Thanks, the client is not a problem as it works from another system running Solaris (this one is Red Hat). I just found out about the mailx -a option which also attaches files. I guess I'll use this.
The sharutils package that used to provide uuencode was deprecated in rhel6, since mailx is able to send MIME attachments, as you have already figured out.
 

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lp-grab-attachments

GRAB-ATTACHMENTS(1)					      General Commands Manual					       GRAB-ATTACHMENTS(1)

NAME

       grab-attachments - downloads attachments from a Launchpad bug

SYNOPSIS

       grab-attachments [options] bug-number...
       grab-attachments -h

DESCRIPTION

       grab-attachments  is  a	script	to  download  all attachments from a Launchpad bug report or bug reports with a source package task into a
       directory named after the bug e.g. bug-1.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for grab-attachments:

       bug-number
	      Specifies the Launchpad bug number that the script should download attachments from.

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -l INSTANCE, --lpinstance=INSTANCE
	      Use the specified instance of Launchpad (e.g. "staging"), instead of the default of "production".

       --no-conf
	      Do not read any configuration files, or configuration from environment variables.

       -d, --duplicates
	      Download attachments from duplicates too.

       -p SRCPACKAGE, --package=SRCPACKAGE
	      Download attachments from all bugs with a task for this source package.

AUTHOR

       lp-grab-attachments was written by Daniel Holbach and this manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

lptools 							  10 August 2008					       GRAB-ATTACHMENTS(1)
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