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Please help.

I have a text file which looks something like this

aaa@abc.com, c:FilePath\Eaaa.txt
bbb@abc.com, c:FilePath\Ebbb.txt
ccc@abc.com, c:FilePath\Eccc.txt
ddd@abc.com, c:FilePath\Eddd.txt...so on

I want to write a shell script which will pick up the first field 'aaa@abc.com' and store it in some memory variable say Field1.
Next I want to store c:FilePath\Eaaa.txt in Field2.
Finally I want to send a mail to Field1 with Field2 as an attachment.
I am new to Unix Shell scirpting and have no idea how to go about this !!!!!

Try This script

Code:

for input_dir_row in `cat sample1.txt`
do
file_name=`echo $input_dir_row | cut -d ',' -f2`
mail_id=`echo $input_dir_row | cut -d ',' -f1`

SUBJ="Send mail from Unix with file attachments"
TO=$mail_id
(
cat << !
To : ${TO}
Subject : ${SUBJ}
!

cat << !
HOPE THIS WORKS
you got the mail from sendmail utility
!
uuencode $file_name $file_name
) | sendmail -v ${TO}
done

here sample1.txt is a input file which has email id and file names.you need to run this script from same dir where sample1.txt file is kept otherwise need to give path in for loop like

Code:

for input_dir_row in `cat /dirpath/sample1.txt`

I am getting the following error
-f1:: not found
> Usage: uuencode [-m] [infile] remotefile

are these files exist in the same machine from where you are running this script or exist on remote machine?

the file in which email id and file names are separated by comma (,) or some other delimiter?

Hi dhruva

I have the sample input feedfile in the same location from where I am running the script. There is no problem with that.
the code is picking up the file name for the mail id.
File Name : Eaaa.txt
To : Eaaa.txt
The field delimiter is a comma followed by a space.

can you check with echo what are the value coming in to variables
file_name and mail_id.
and replace the line

Code:

uuencode $file_name $file_name

by

Code:

uuencode -m $file_name $file_name

Hi Dhruva

I tried ur newer suggestion :

set -x

for input_dir_row in `cat mailse1.lst`
do
file_name=`echo $input_dir_row | cut -f2`
mail_id=`echo $input_dir_row | cut -d ',' -f1`

SUBJ="Send mail from Unix with file attachments"
TO=$mail_id
(
cat << !
To : ${TO}
Subject : ${SUBJ}
!

cat << !
HOPE THIS WORKS
you got mail from sendmail utility
!

uuencode -m $file_name $file_name
) | sendmail -v ${TO}
done

Can u pls. explain what
cat << !
To : ${TO}
Subject : ${SUBJ}
!
does exactly.
From what I understand it assigns the To and Subject value and displays it on the screen.
But since the time I have been using the '-m' option with uuencode i cannot see these values on the screen.

What excatly is happening here ?

Thanks