Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:01:47PM +0200, Jabka Atu <mashrom.head@gmail.com> was heard to say:
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> Good day,..
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> since i can't send find a fast way to send many pictures to Gmail /
> ISP mail (Quata limit for single mail).
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> I thought it will be fun to do it in one line :
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> find  *.jpg -exec uuencode  '{}' '{}' |  mail someone@gmail.com \;       
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> but this won't work since :
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> find: missing argument to `-exec'

  The pipe is being interpreted by the shell, so find never sees the
trailing semicolon, hence the error you get.

  If you want to do this, you can try:

find $PATH *.jpg -exec sh -c 'uuencode "$0" "$0" | mail someone@gmail.com' '{}' ';'

  which ought to do what you want.  You need to explicitly invoke a
shell because find will just pass the pipe character literally along
instead of interpreting it.

  Daniel