Email Multiple File Attachments From Solairs / AIX / HP-UX / UNIX / Linux Command Line

Task: Email reports.tar.gz File

Type the uuencode command as follows:

uuencode reports.tar.gz reports.tar.gz | mailx -s "My Report" you@cyberciti.biz

Please note that the file name "reports.tar.gz" appears twice on the uuencode command line. You must use same name twice.

Task: Email new office photo along with text message read from a file

Type the command as follows;

(cat mymessage.txt; uuencode office.jpeg office.jpeg) | mail -s "Subject" you@cyberciti.biz

Task: Send multiple attachments in a single email

Type the command as follows:
$ uuencode r1.tar.gz r1.tar.gz > /tmp/out.mail
$ uuencode r2.tar.gz r3.tar.gz >> /tmp/out.mail
$ uuencode r3.tar.gz r3.tar.gz >> /tmp/out.mail
$ cat email-body.txt >> /tmp/out.mail
$ mail -s "Reports" you@cyberciti.biz < /tmp/out.mail