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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
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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uuencode archive.tar.gz archive.tar.gz | mail -s "Emailing: archive.tar.gz" user@example.com

thesuperjason · 2009-05-19 07:17:37 4
mail with attachment

An easy one but nice to keep in mind.
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tar cvzf - data1 data2 | uuencode data.tar.gz | mail -s 'data' you@host.fr

log0 · 2009-05-01 23:13:08 12
Simple Video Surveillance by email

This takes a picture (with the web cam) every 5 minutes, and send the picture to your e-mail. Some systems support mail -a "References: " so that all video surveillance emails are grouped in a single email thread. To keep your inbox clean, it is still possible to filter and move to trash video surveillance emails (and restore these emails only if you really get robbed!) For instance with Gmail, emails sent to me+trash@gmail.com can be filtered with "Matches: DeliveredTo:me+trash@gmail.com" Show Sample Output
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```
--- Opening /dev/video0...
Trying source module v4l2...
/dev/video0 opened.
No input was specified, using the first.
--- Capturing 15 frames...
Captured 15 frames in 1.86 seconds. (8 fps)
--- Processing captured image...
Writing JPEG image to '-'.
--- Opening /dev/video0...
Trying source module v4l2...
/dev/video0 opened.
No input was specified, using the first.
--- Capturing 15 frames...
Captured 15 frames in 1.86 seconds. (8 fps)
--- Processing captured image...
Writing JPEG image to '-'.
```
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while true ; do fswebcam -d /dev/video0 -r 1280x1024 -F 15 - | uuencode $(date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M).jpeg | mail -s "Video surveillance" $USER ; sleep 300 ; done

pascalvaucheret · 2016-08-09 14:22:45 14
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 foo.txt foo.txt; uuencode /etc/passwd passwd.txt)|mailx -s "Pandaren!" someone@cmdfu.com

LrdShaper · 2009-06-15 11:34:51 7
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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uuencode -m $1 /dev/stdout | sed '1d' | sed '$d' | tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection clipboard

caliburning · 2009-10-19 09:03:09 4
Send Disk usage via email
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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

gg · 2009-04-10 15:30:54 4
Send a local file via email

uuencode the file to appear as an attachment
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cat filename | uuencode filename | mail -s "Email subject" user@example.com

amaymon · 2009-09-21 04:13:50 9
Send a local file via email

on this way we can define the body too
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{ echo -e "$body"; uuencode "$outfile" "$outfile"; } | mail -s "$subject" "$destaddr" ;

glaudiston · 2009-12-10 18:08:59 5
Copy a file over SSH without SCP

cat didn't seem to work with binaries to well for me, the above command seemed to do the trick. Opps should be pointed out its going through a "hop" box (which is why I was searching here in first place), only need the last bit (after the -t) if doing it directly from one box to another...
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ssh username1@servername1 -t ssh username2@servername2 uuencode -m testfile1.tar - | uudecode > testfile1.tar

djt78 · 2013-01-28 17:06:00 5
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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head -c $((<pw-lenght>-2)) /dev/urandom | uuencode -m - | sed -e '1d' -e '3d' | sed -e 's/=.*$//g'

P17 · 2009-03-24 20:05:16 9
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. Show Sample Output
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```
$ mkpasswd 56
AB:C[)\"=H#J:E()EY>HA6J,R741+ACL&08PC)P4Z#3R^YZ*3L0@O<<6
$ mkpasswd 9
YMO;<&.FB
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mkpasswd() { head -c $(($1)) /dev/urandom | uuencode - | sed -n 's/.//;2s/$.\{'$1'\}$.*/\1/p' ;}

taliver · 2009-11-19 14:27:52 6
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. Show Sample Output
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```
On the source server:
~$ cat test.txt
testing uuencode
~$ uuencode test.txt test.txt
begin 644 test.txt
1=&5S=&EN9R!U=65N8V]D90H`
`
end


On the destination server:
~$ cat test.txt.uu
begin 644 test.txt
1=&5S=&EN9R!U=65N8V]D90H`
`
end
~$ uudecode test.txt.uu
~$ cat test.txt
testing uuencode
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uuencode -m <filename> <filename>

leprasmurf · 2009-12-22 15:28:59 4

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Quickly graph a list of numbers

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