[GLLUG] mail two files

[Sean]

You might also check out the ~r option if your version of mail supports
it.

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Matt Graham wrote:

> On Monday 28 January 2002 11:05, Charles Williams wrote:
> > I want to mail two files to myself.
> > This is how I mail one file:
> > mail willcha@sme.org < file_one.txt
> > It seems I should be able to stick another file on there but I can't.
> >
> > Kinda like
> > mail willcha@sme.org < file_one.txt < file_two.txt
> > Any ideas?
>
> When you use < to mean "redirect STDIN" like that, you can only use it
> once.  Also, you can only use it with one file.  If these things are
> text files, you can do this:
>
> cat file1.txt file2.txt > temp.txt
> mail foo@example.org < temp.txt
> rm -f temp.txt
>
> If you have non-text data you wish to send, you can tar + gzip the
> files, then pipe the output to mmencode (or uuencode) and pipe that to
> mail, kind of like so:
>
> tar czO file1 file2 file3 | mmencode | mail -s "some files" foo@bar.org
>
> There's another command-line program called "metasend" that should also
> work, but it's kind of hairy and ugly.  It would go like so:
>
> metasend -b -s "some files" -t foo@bar.org -D "file1" -m text/plain -e
> base64 -f file1 -n -D "file2" -m text/plain -e base64 -f file2
>
> This way you can get more than one file attached, but the output looks
> ugly and incorrect (though all the data is there.)  I probably have the
> metasend syntax partially wrong.
>
>