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

Luke -Jr luke at dashjr.org
Wed Aug 15 06:41:32 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Jay Hannah wrote:
> 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?

base64 file.pdf | ... should work



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