Sending attachment with email without using uuencode and mutt

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

do we have any option for sending attachment with email except using uuencode and mutt, because if i use these utilities then i will have to install them separately which is not feasible at time.

please suggest on this.

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You certainly do not need mutt . You can uses mail or mailx or sendmail , which would normally be standard fare on a Unix/Linux system. Instead of uuencode you could also use base64 for attachments. Are you sure uuencode is not installed by default as well?

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Thanks scrutinizer for your valuable comment.

But I have found one other option too i.e. mailx -a

echo "This is message body" | mailx -s "This is Subject" -a err_val.csv.20150806052330 "lovelysethii@gmail.com"

It's working perfectly for me.