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Create a 100MB file for testing transfer speed
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dd if=/dev/random of=bigfile bs=1024 count=102400

amiga500 · 2009-02-17 05:41:20 9
Email a file to yourself

This works on Solaris 10. Show Sample Output
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```
The first argument to uuencode is the file on disk, the second is the name of the MIME attachment, which can be the same.  The "-s" option of mailx sets the subject is followed by a list of users or email addresses.
```
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uuencode $file $file | /usr/bin/mailx -s "$file" ${USER}

amiga500 · 2009-02-16 06:38:00 81

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