I have a server that I have inherited that has an older version of Redhat installed due to software requirements and now there is a need to use UUENCODE to allow email attachments. The uuencode and

I understand uuencode is for encoding files, and mailx sends mail. However, I'm not exactly understanding... Why uuencode file file | mailx -s "subject" email_adress keeps sending messages with the

Oct 14, 2015 · If the OP hadn't specified uuencode, I would preferred to use a tool like mime-construct or makemime or write a trivial script using one of the perl or python MIME mail generating modules.

Jun 19, 2016 · I want to send a simple text file as an attachment in an email. When the email is delivered, the attachment is missing, instead, the contents of the attachments are displayed in the email body. Need

I am using uuencode with mailx to attach a zip file. In following code, the if block works perfectly and I get Deletions.zip as an attachment in the email. But, whenever the else block is executed ...

Nov 21, 2018 · Do both base64 (from coreutils) and uuencode -m and uudecode (from sharutils) implement base64 encoding and decoding? Can they be used exchangeably?

Jun 5, 2014 · I think it's most likely that you just have the man-page for a command that's not installed at your system. uuencode used to be part of the "standard selection" of commands, but many of these are no-longer installed by default (eg. like compact, vi and ed) - mostly because new and better commands have taken their place. There are however "standard selections" of …

Feb 26, 2020 · Notice that, as stated in the respective man pages: Uuencode and uudecode are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums that do not support other than simple ASCII data.. Is cpu_usage.log a binary file? If not it does not make sense calling uuencode.

So normally what this does is take the .dat file and standard outs it in a csv format - and sends the mail with no body but just the info.csv and results.log attached. What is actually happening is the encoded output that uuencode produces (if you were to just run it independently) is being sent in the message body and there are no attachments.

Jul 13, 2017 · Note, I used uname -or to figure out 2.6.32-400.26.3.el5uek GNU/Linux. I used the command within a bash script to attach a file to an email, and have it in a couple other scripts as well. However, a few of our machines do not even support uuencode, so what are some better options for attaching files to emails than uuencode?