Topic: command(s) to mail a file??

[Rob Wellesley]

Hi

I want to have cron mail a log file to an external address

any ideas?

[Curly]

cat | mailx -s "subject" user@machine

[Rob Wellesley]

Curly wrote:
>
> cat | mail -s "subject" user@machine

Thanks, but cat is not what I need here, it would have to go as an attachment when the file is zipped or a binary.

But thanks for your effort

rob

[Julie Random]

#!/bin/sh
FN=date +%Y%m%d.csv
ftp -n <open host
cd /pub/.....
get $FN
quit
!
mail me@work < $FN


You should be able to modify the above to suit.
Get the shell to build the commands for you.
I've used this to get the shell to download a file and
then mail it to me.

[Nathan Fowler]

There is a much easier way


uuencode local_filename filename_to_use_as_attachment | mail -s "Subject Line" user@domain.com

Thanks,
Nathan