[olug] email a binary file (uuencode no longer popular?)

Brian Roberson roberson at olug.org
Tue Aug 14 20:32:37 UTC 2007


If you have mutt:


mutt -a file.pdf jay at jays.net < /dev/null





> For years I have done this:
>
>    uuencode file.pdf file.pdf | mail jay at jays.net
>
> Recently it seems uuencode isn't on Linux machines by default any more.
> Is there some cooler way the crazy kids are doing this nowadays?
>
> Thanks,
>
> j
>
>
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