[KLUG Members] Re: Can uuencode pass multiple files -- "just for it"

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:45, Patrick McGovern wrote:
> I am trying to use the uuencode command to pass multiple files
> to the mailx command, like this:
> uuencode $PATH/file_name*.rpt   file_name*.rpt | mailx -s "files are
> attached"  "$mail_address"
> The uuencode command does not seem to allow the filename expansion.  
> Is there a way to send multiple files with uuencode?

When in doubt, yell "for" ...

  for i in `find . $PATH/file_name*.rpt`; do
    uuencode ${i} ${i} >> file_all.rpt.uue
  done
  cat file_all.rpt.uue | mailx -s "files are attached" "$mail_address"

-- Bryan


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