Also another much scriptic solution is to use metasend, which does the
job, but needs the mime type for each file, which can be found from
'file -i'.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Another unrelated message:
>
> How can I attach a file to a message from the command-line?
>
> I can run:
>
> mail <file [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> But this gets the file in the content of the message. How do I get a file
> as a mime part of a message?
>
> Note that I would like to be able to attach multiple files, and not to be
> bothered with detecting mime types. Something like:
>
> send_files --subject="subject" --to=user1,user2 file1 file2
>
> Alternatively, something simpler, that creates a multi-part message to
> stdout, that I can feed to 'mail:
>
> make_mime file1 file2 |mail -s "subject" user1 user2
>
> Before anybody answers "mimeencode" or anything from the metamail: try
> using this and see if you call metamail a working solution. Its inability
> to automatically detect the mime type is irrtating.
>
> There is also 'sendfiles' that sends the files inside one compress ('.Z')
> tarball.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> >From time to time I find myself in need for such a "building block" and
> usually work around this need.
>
>
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Behdad
1 Bahman 1380, 2002 Jan 21
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