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Old 10-24-2011
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Hi Folks,

Please help me in solving the problem.

I want to write script in order to split a file into small pieces and send it automatically through mail.

Ex. The file name is CALM*.txt . It is around 50 MB. I want to split the file into 20 MB 2-3 smaller files and send (like uuencode) it to some user (like piyush@unix.com)

Kindly help.
# 2  
Old 10-24-2011
assuming the file is a text file, use split to make smaller files, depending upon the average line length, about 25000, 40 character lines per megabyte.
Code:
mkdir output
cd output
split -l1000000 ../inputfile
list=`ls x*`
count=1
for file in $list
do
mutt -a $file -s "Part $count" emailaddress
count=`echo $count + 1|bc`
done

Changed the line that was list=`ls` to list=`ls x*` so that this script is not part of the emails
Last edited by jgt; 10-29-2011 at 03:36 PM.. Reason: typo in code
# 3  
Old 10-29-2011
Hi Jgt,

Thanks for the solution , but mutt is not isntalled in my system. I was looking for sending the files through 'uuencode'.... Can you help??
# 4  
Old 10-29-2011
Code:
uuencode $file ${file}.txt | mailx -s "Part $count" abc@xyz.com

# 5  
Old 10-29-2011
Thanks jayan.... I am kind of naive....Can you help me putting it into a script..
# 6  
Old 10-29-2011
Just replace the "mutt" line in my script with jayan_jay's "uuencode..." line.
# 7  
Old 11-01-2011
thanks a lot JJ and jgt....
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