mail , mailx

[ddm at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 04:57:42PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 Peter Wu <peterwu at fenix2.dol-esa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >    I am using mail command trying to send two files from unix
> >    Say, mail abc at ddd.net < testfile will send testfile to abc at ddd.net
> >
> >    Is there a possibility  to send two files at one time
> > lide mail abc at ddd.net < testfile testfile2
> > I tried this line of command but it always gave me error message
> > So, Do you have any idea how i can send two files at one time
> >
> >
> > my system is Dynix/ptx
> 
> Mailx predates the MIME standard, and thus it doesn't attachments. If you
> wanted to send multiple files with mailx, you'd have to first combine them
> into one file. A common convention is to use "tar" create a combined file,
> "gzip" to compress that file, and "uuencode" to clean it up for the mail
> system.

If you really need to use the mail command, and if the files both
contain only ASCII text, you can use mail to do this with something
like:

  (cat file1; echo -e "\n"; cat file2) | mail user at yourhost.com

HTH.

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