Re: sending files from the cmd line...

If memory serves me right, Anders Eriksson wrote:

> > I may be extra dense this morning but I'm not following the 
> > question.  Are you looking for an nmh command line way to mail a 
> > text file or a binary file?  Or an exmh way?
> > 
> > If you're looking for an nmh way does it have to be 
> > non-interactive so it can be embedded in a script or is 
> > interactive OK?
> > 
> 
> I'd like to have it non-interactive so I can script it to 
> send a bunch of files..
> 
> for f in * ; do
> uuencode $f $f | mail -s $f foo@bar
> done
> 
> short non-interactive, does the job kind of. Though many modern
> mailers can handle uuencode as well as mime, I'm a bit reluctant to
> send uuencoded stuff to folks whose computer skills are unknownv to
> me.
> 
> So I need to go mime, but I haven't found an equivalent script thing.

I've been looking for something similar too (for a slightly different
application).  This gets us partway there...create an appropriate
forwcomps file (perhaps generate one dynamically from a script, one that
takes a recipient's email address), and then:

% echo "send" | \
  forw -mime -form path/to/forwcomps -noedit -file path/to/file

Ugly but maybe the ugliness can be hidden away in a script.

Bruce.

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