Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a requirement that I would have to write a shell script for sending a mail. The logic is that script should send a mail with a file attachment. I know that I could use 'uuencode' for the attachment but It just displaying the file content in the mail but I just need to attach the file in the mail and send it to a Email id (Just like our normal mail attachment). Could you please let me know how I can proceed? Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Thambi

show us how you use uuencode.

Eg:

SUBJ="Send mail from Unix with file attachments"
TO=someone@domain_name
CC=someoneelse_1@domain_name,someoneelse_2@domain_name
(
cat << !
To : ${TO}
Subject : ${SUBJ}
Cc : ${CC}
!

cat << !

uuencode ${file_1} ${file_1}
uuencode ${file_2} ${file_2}
uuencode ${file_3} ${file_3}
!

) | sendmail -v ${TO} ${CC}

i have not tried your code, but here is how i usually do it for example

Code:

uuencode file file | mail -s "subject" user@domain.com

for more examples, see here