Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am wondering if anyone knows how to send a binary (.tar.gz) file from
> the command line?  I am trying to write a "batch" (Sorry my old DOS
> stuff coming back) program that tars and gzipps up some directorys and
> then emails them to me.  All this for the purpose of backing up my
> config files.  I can get the script to tar up the directorys that I
> want, and then gzip them, but i can't figure out how to email them.

You are looking for the mimeit command in the metamail package.

example:
[prompt]$ cat mytar.tar.gz |mimeit application/x-gtar "whoiwant@tosendto.com" "This is the subject of the mail"

-Mitch