UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All,
I am sending a mail with attachment only in this way.
But each time with attachment comes another attachment with the
name of "Testing.txt" which is just an empty text file how to remove this
thing please help

(uuencode ./file2.txt "Bad file")|mailx -s "Testing" maindola@rediff.com

also i want to send message along with attachment. I have tried all the solution already given in this blogs but they are not working so please
help me.

Thanks and Regards,
Amit Maindola

Some points.
1) In this context we want the output from uuencode to be to a pipe, so we don't want the second parameter.
2) Assuming you will read the attachment in a Microsoft mail reader it is necessary to convert from unix to MSDOS format and ensure that the attachment has a ".txt" file extension. The exact commmand for conversion varies but is usually ux2dos or unix2dos.
3) We need the "-m" parameter to "mailx".
4) It always helps to know what Operating System you have because there is much variation in the "mailx" command expectially between true unix and the umpteen variations on unix-like Operating Systems such as Linux.

Code:

(ux2dos ./file2.txt | uuencode attachment.txt)|mailx -m -s "Testing" maindola@rediff.com

If we want the same file to appear in the mail body as well as an attachment.

Code:

(cat ./file2.txt ; ux2dos ./file2.txt | uuencode attachment.txt)|mailx -m -s "Testing" maindola@rediff.com

Hi All,
The command is not working in my system it is showing -m as invalid operator
please suggest it doing other way.
Thanks

See 4) above

Hi Methyl,
That thing didn't work. I don't know what's wrong happening here
every time i am getting an extra file with a uuencode i,e. attachment
if i attached two files i am getting two more txt files with the name of
subject

(uuencode ./email_text.txt file.txt)|mailx -s"Test" maindola@cisco.com

i am getting two files one is file.txt and Test.txt file.txt is fine but
Test.txt is having values
`end
(uuencode ./email_text.txt file.txt)|mailx -s"Test" maindola@cisco.com<<EOF
echo " "
EOF
i didn't get any attachment i got only body having
echo " " as its content
please help me out i have to implement this thing in my project
so please help me
Regards,
Amit maindola

What Operating System and version are you running?
What Shell are you using (e.g. ksh, bash etc.).

I can reproduce your problem by not using the "-m" switch to "mailx". If your mailx is rejecting "-m" we need to know what Operating System you have.

Hi Methyl,
I solved the problem, it was with uuencode the os i am using
is Cisco Linux 5.14 a old one modified by Cisco(my company).
actually the uuencode formats a file in a form like this
beging <mode> <filename>
<some code / encryption key>
`
end
I removed the last two ones which are trailers added to them by uuencode
so now i am using it like
(uuencode ./a.txt ab.txt | head -2) | mailx -s "subject" abc@def.com

Thanks for your continuous help