hi.. how to attach a tar file using shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

How to attach a tar file using shell script or the command liine..

I following command just send the mail to the person with .txt file as body, I want to send it as attachment.

/usr/sbin/sendmail -f "user1@daemon.com" user2@daemon.com <hi.txt

The contents of the hi.txt will be sent as the body of the message..

Please help..... Thanks in advance..

Madhu

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There is no simple oneliner for doing this. The classic UNIX way would be to uuencode the tarball and embed it as part of your message. There are however a number of ways of building a message with an attachment.

The following should work if your version of uuencode supports the -m option (but I have no tested it!)

(cat hi.txt ; uuencode -m file.tar tarball) | sendmail -f "user1@daemon.com"

Here are a couple of pointers:

Mailing Attachments from UNIX
Sending email with a text message and an attachment from standard UNIX.