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I'm trying to send a .zip file from my unix box to my work email (email client outlook)

The file name that I'm trying to sent is sites.zip and this is how I do it:

Code:

uuencode sites.zip | mailx -s "testing" myname@mydomain.com

When I open the .zip, the zip is empty. Looking around the we, I see that the reason is that I need to convert from unix format to dos format and I can do that by using unix2dos. But when I try I get an error:

Code:

unix2dos sites.zip | mailx -s   myname@mydomain.com
could not open /dev/kbd to get keyboard type US keyboard assumed
could not get keyboard type US keyboard assumed

Thanks in advance

You cannot use unix2dos on binary files, it will render the zip unreadable for the unzip. Instead, you will have to uuencode, mail, and then run uudecode on the DOS side to reverse the changes made by uuencode. Then you should be able to unzip the file.

Is there any other way to do it that I don't have to do anything on the other end? because I'm doing an script and I don't want the user do anything on their end. Thanks for your fast reply

What you were doing never made sense in the first place. Any other way to do what?

If you want the contents of the zip to be converted, convert the files before you zip them...

As Corona668 said, convert should be the first thing you do, IF those are text files, which you did not mention. In case they are:
unix2dos files; zip files; uuencode .zip; mail .zip; uudecode .zip; unzip files --> there you are, you have your unzipped, converted files on your DOS side.

No guarantees (you'll need to dry run this) but I find that some Windows compression utilities (eg. WinRAR) can unpack native unix tar files.

I've used such functionalities in production environments quite successfully.

I just did a test, The file that I want to send as an attachment is named text_file.txt

Code:

unix2dos text_file.txt

Then I sent it as an attachment likr this

Code:

uuencode text_file.txt  | mailx -s "test" myname@domain.com

But when I received the file, the file was empty.