Sending mail from unix with attachment

Question

I have a file with pipe delimiters. I'd like to replace the pipes with <tab> and mail the file as attachment. I do get mail but still with pipes.

Part of my script -

OUTPUT_FILE=/path/to/file/filename.xls

sed 's/|/ /g' $OUTPUT_FILE

uuencode ${OUTPUT_FILE} $OUTPUT_FILE | mail -s "Test" [email protected]

I tried replacing $OUTPUT_FILE with ${OUTPUT_FILE} in sed but still I get file with pipe.

Checkout heirloom mailx (previously known as nail) which supports attachments out of the box — MrTux
– MrTux, Commented Sep 10, 2014 at 12:21

Richard Neish · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-10 13:43:46Z

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Your sed command is not modifying the contents of the file. You should pipe the output of sed directly to uuencode, like this:

OUTPUT_FILE=/path/to/file/filename.xls

sed 's/|/ /g' $OUTPUT_FILE |uuencode ${OUTPUT_FILE} | mail -s "Test" [email protected]

answered Sep 10, 2014 at 13:43

Richard Neish

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