How to get uuencode on Fedora 17 Linux. Find out what provides for uuencode using yum: yum provides uuencode Read what yum tells you: sharutils-4.11.1-3.fc17.x86_64 : The GNU shar utilities for packaging and unpackaging shell archives Repo : @updates Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/uuencode

Uuencode converts binary data into text it was the first method used to send binary files by email (it is just one of the usage of uuencode). Uuencode will not protect your email. Then MIME was invented who defined mail body and attachments. To send MIME emails I use mpack. mpack -s "subject" -d description_file file address1 address2...

Oct 14, 2015 · If the OP hadn't specified uuencode, I would preferred to use a tool like mime-construct or makemime or write a trivial script using one of the perl or python MIME mail generating modules. BTW, looking at my answer again, if I could have assumed bash rather than sh, I would have used an array for FILES rather than a string.

Jun 19, 2016 · Thanks for your response! I tried the below: bash-4.1$ uuencode vin.dat vin_attchment.dat > vfile.dat bash-4.1$ mailx -a vfile.dat -s "testing2" [email protected] </dev/null The result was that- (i) the attachment has a file and its contents are encoded :( (ii) the body is empty - which is fine I suspect the issue is with the uudecode utility.

Feb 22, 2025 · This very old thread shows how to use uuencode and ssmtp to send an email with attachment from a bash script. I've created this test script to debug: #!/bin/bash set -x NOW=$( date '+%F' ) #( .

I am using uuencode with mailx to attach a zip file. In following code, the if block works perfectly and I get Deletions.zip as an attachment in the email. But, whenever the else block is executed I don't get the attachment but the binary code in the email body instead. Code (Perl code invoking linux commands):

Nov 21, 2018 · Except for the header and tail that uuencode adds to its output, yes: $ uuencode -m - <<<"Hello World! test" begin-base64 644 - SGVsbG8gV29ybGQhIHRlc3QK ==== $ base64 <<<"Hello World! test" SGVsbG8gV29ybGQhIHRlc3QK But uuencode …

Feb 26, 2020 · Notice that, as stated in the respective man pages: Uuencode and uudecode are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums that do not support other than simple ASCII data.. Is cpu_usage.log a binary file? If not it does not make sense calling uuencode. –

Jun 5, 2014 · uuencode used to be part of the "standard selection" of commands, but many of these are no-longer installed by default (eg. like compact, vi and ed) - mostly because new and better commands have taken their place. There are however "standard selections" of man-pages too (which is installed when you install man), so it's very likely that such a ...

What is actually happening is the encoded output that uuencode produces (if you were to just run it independently) is being sent in the message body and there are no attachments. The email body looks like this: