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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sending email with text & attachment using mailx Post 70208 by haryadoon on Tuesday 26th of April 2005 07:14:24 PM
Old 04-26-2005
Sending email with text & attachment using mailx
I spent some time working this out, with a little help from various forums, and thought the community would like to know :

Here is how you can send an email from a single Unix command line :

/usr/bin/echo "Email text\nNew line\nAnother new line" >x | uuencode sourcefile.txt sourcefile.txt | cat x - | mailx -s "Email subject" -r "reply@to.com" "recipient@company.com"

Breakdown :
- /usr/bin/echo : I use /usr/bin/echo because it consistently handles embedded control characters like \n (newline)

- >x : The echoed text is saved in file "x" for use by "cat"

- uuencode : This takes the file and generates it as a MIME-encoded attachment. The output (encoded file) is piped to "cat"

- cat : Concatenates the echoed text to the encoded file. Cat takes the contents of file "x", appends the output from uuencode and pipes them to "mailx"

- mailx : Sends the email. -s is the subject text, -r is the reply-to email address, followed by the recipient's email address. The contents of the email come from the output of "cat"

This command does leave behind a file called "x". You may want to delete this file later. You could save it in /var/tmp, if the contents aren't sensitive.

This works for me on Solaris (SunOS 5.6). I believe it should be fairly portable to other environments.

If you want to include HTML in the text part of the email, you can include "Content-Type: text/html" in the echoed text, followed by your HTML code.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

gnomevfs-cat

gnomevfs-cat(1) 						   User Commands						   gnomevfs-cat(1)

NAME

       gnomevfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system

SYNOPSIS

       gnomevfs-cat URI

DESCRIPTION

       gnomevfs-cat is obsolete.  It has been superseded by gvfs-cat.  See gvfs-cat(1).

       gnomevfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       URI	       Specifies the file location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server

       example% gnomevfs-cat http://www.sun.com

       Example 2: Cat a Local File

       example% gnomevfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnomevfs-cat   Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-vfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Obsolete Volatile 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1), gvfs-cat(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.11							    14 May 2008 						   gnomevfs-cat(1)
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