uuencode error

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi all,
i get the following error when i try and email a file as an attachment on a solaris box. the command is

/usr/bin/uuencode $fileName $fileName | /usr/bin/mailx -s "file" $emailTo

and the error is :

/usr/bin/uuencode: ISO8859-1 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument

The funny thing is that the email shows up in the inbox fine with the attachement !! why does it throw the error then ??

thanks in advance.

2

Tried it with another file? There should be also a lot of posts in the forum here if you search for any combination of "mail attachment uuencode" to get more examples etc.

3

If the output is to a pipeline you do not specify an output filename on the command line.

/usr/bin/uuencode $fileName |
4

but the command works i.e it successfully sends the email out. i dont know how to supress the below message after the email command is issued.

"uuencode: ISO8859-1 to 646 conversion: Invalid argument"