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Commands using uuencode

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uuencode -m <filename> <filename>
2009-12-22 15:28:59
User: leprasmurf
Functions: uuencode
Tags: uuencode uudecode file transfer
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Copy a file over SSH without SCP

I have come across multiple situations where I could only get to a server from a very restrictive bounce point which would not allow file transfers. I was able to uuencode a file, copy the output to a text file over putty, and then uudecode the file to transfer it. This works with any kind of file.

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{ echo -e "$body"; uuencode "$outfile" "$outfile"; } | mail -s "$subject" "$destaddr" ;
2009-12-10 18:08:59
User: glaudiston
Functions: echo mail uuencode
Tags: cat mail
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Send a local file via email

on this way we can define the body too

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mkpasswd() { head -c $(($1)) /dev/urandom | uuencode - | sed -n 's/.//;2s/\(.\{'$1'\}\).*/\1/p' ;}
2009-11-19 14:27:52
User: taliver
Functions: head sed uuencode
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Random password generating function

This uses urandom to produce a random password. The random values are uuencoded to ensure only printable characters. This only works for a number of characters between 1 and 60.

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uuencode -m $1 /dev/stdout | sed '1d' | sed '$d' | tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection clipboard
2009-10-19 09:03:09
User: caliburning
Functions: sed tr uuencode
Tags: xclip uuencode
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encode image to base64 and copy to clipboard

I use it for embedding images in CSS for Stylish, the Firefox addon.

Thought it might be useful to others.

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cat filename | uuencode filename | mail -s "Email subject" user@example.com
2009-09-21 04:13:50
User: amaymon
Functions: cat mail uuencode
Tags: cat mail
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Send a local file via email

uuencode the file to appear as an attachment

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(uuencode foo.txt foo.txt; uuencode /etc/passwd passwd.txt)|mailx -s "Pandaren!" someone@cmdfu.com
2009-06-15 11:34:51
User: LrdShaper
Functions: mailx uuencode
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Send multiple attachments using mailx

If you're users have ever asked your script to email their reports in separate attachments instead of tar'ring them into one file, then you can use this. You'll need the mailx package of course. In Unix you'd want to add an additional parameter "-m"

(uuencode foo.txt foo.txt; uuencode /etc/passwd passwd.txt)|mailx -m -s "Hooosa!" someone@cmdfu.com

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uuencode archive.tar.gz archive.tar.gz | mail -s "Emailing: archive.tar.gz" user@example.com
2009-05-19 07:17:37
User: thesuperjason
Functions: mail uuencode
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Send a binary file as an attachment to an email

The uuencode utility will encode your file so that it can be sent as an attachment to an email. It is part of the sharutils package in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora.

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tar cvzf - data1 data2 | uuencode data.tar.gz | mail -s 'data' you@host.fr
2009-05-01 23:13:08
User: log0
Functions: mail tar uuencode
Tags: mail attachment
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mail with attachment

An easy one but nice to keep in mind.

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#!/bin/sh #du.sh i=`hostname -i` df -h > /tmp/space.txt echo "server $i " >> /tmp/space.txt uuencode /tmp/space.txt space.txt | mail -s "HDD usage $i" email@email.com
2009-04-10 15:30:54
User: gg
Functions: df echo mail uuencode
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Send Disk usage via email
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head -c $((<pw-lenght>-2)) /dev/urandom | uuencode -m - | sed -e '1d' -e '3d' | sed -e 's/=.*$//g'
2009-03-24 20:05:16
User: P17
Functions: head sed uuencode
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Creates a random passwort from /dev/urandom [0-9A-za-z]

Replace < pw-length > with the desired password-length.

The password-length is not always correct, but wayne...

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uuencode $file $file | /usr/bin/mailx -s "$file" ${USER}
2009-02-16 06:38:00
User: amiga500
Functions: uuencode
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Email a file to yourself

This works on Solaris 10.

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