If you have mutt installed (a popular text-mode mail reader/writer), you can get the same thing done without any scripting:
$ echo 'Here you go' |mutt [email protected] -s 'My subject' -a /path/to/file :-) On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > Little bit off topic, but quite relevant for the busy coder. > Often I needed to quickly grab a file off a server, or send to a client, but > it took me 2-3 minutes to fire up an SCP client, find the file, send it etc > etc. > So I created a small script (depends on sendmail and uuencode/sharutils) to > send files via email: > [email protected] [~] > cat /usr/sbin/sendfile > #!/bin/sh > if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -z "$2" ] || [ ! -f $1 ] ; then > echo "syntax: [filename] [email address]" > else > (echo "file attached."; uuencode $1 $1) | mail -s "file attach: $1" $2 > echo "File sent to $2" > fi > Usage: > [email protected] [~] > /usr/sbin/sendfile ~/lol > [email protected] > File sent to [email protected] > Hopefully someone else will benefit from these 6 lines of code which saved > me so much time :) > Cal > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- Bjarni R. Einarsson Founder, lead developer of PageKite. Make localhost servers visible to the world: http://pagekite.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
