Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys,
I have a script which is going to pull a file from a directory on my Unix server, and send it in a mail. However, I would like to filelink this file and drop it in the email.

How would I do this? For those of you who do not know filelink, you simply drag the file onto the filelink icon, then press ctrl+c in the email, and it pastes a link from which the recipient can access this file.

How can I write this on Unix.

Cheers, G.

---------- Post updated 03-12-10 at 08:56 AM ---------- Previous update was 03-11-10 at 08:42 PM ----------

Ok...maybe we all aren't familiar with Filelink! lol.

Is there any other method for sending large files that will not clogg the recipient inbox..we're talking 25MB. Done via unix.

Code:

gzip -9 bigfile
uuencode bigfile.gz | mailx -s 'attached: bigfile.gz'  someuser@someplace.com

You can also send the full path of the file and let the user download it.

The recipient does not have unix to decode this file. So i don't think unix to unix encoding will work..?

uuencode is standard email attachment encoding, considered appropriate and borrowed since it can represent arbitrary binary data as line-length-limited ASCII text. All email attachments use it though you seldom see the underlying details like this.

But you wanted a way to create a link to the file, not just email it whole. First, you need a host you control, ideally a web server. Second, you put a file on it, perhaps with scp? Third, you send someone a link to it. Details depend on your webserver and how you want to implement this. using filelink may not be practical unless filelink offers a UNIX interface since reverse-engineering the filelink binary executable would be a herculean task.

Did you try ?
More example sending mail using attachment. Works fine with every mail clients. If not, problem is the client, not the environment.