acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) (10/28/89)
The following is a simple shell script to mail a large binary file. It will uuencode the file and split it in files of a suitable size, and then wrap each file in a shar, and mail each part in a separate, message. (The name auto mail seems a little bit misleading) It is a simple hack but sometimes useful when you want to mail large tar compressed files... ----cute here----cute here----cute here----cute here----cute here---- #!/bin/sh #Automail Written Oct 22, 1989, by Alejandro Liu to handle the mailing #of large binary files. Assumes a Unix system with the following programs: # shar uuencode split mkdir rm -R #and also the use the /tmp directory. (This can be changed though) # # Warning, this script seems to fork a lot of processes. So it is best if # You use an non-audited system like a work station to run this. # : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : CMD=`expr /xd/$0 : '.*/\(.*\)' \| /xd/$0` if (test $# != 2) then echo Usage: $CMD filename recipient exit 1 fi # # Change this if there is no /tmp directory available. Could be for # example: $HOME/.automail.$$ # DIR=/tmp/.autom.$$ # # SIZE of the each mail file in lines # SIZE=1200 # FNAME=$1 DEST=$2 mkdir $DIR uuencode $FNAME $FNAME > $DIR/$FNAME.uu cd $DIR split -$SIZE $FNAME.uu $FNAME.uu. rm $FNAME.uu NPARTS=`ls|wc -l` PCOUNT=0 for PIECES in * do PCOUNT=`expr $PCOUNT + 1` echo Mailing Part $PIECES shar -n$PCOUNT -e$NPARTS $PIECES | mail -s $PIECES $DEST rm $PIECES done rmdir $DIR exit 0 Alejandro Liu acliu%skat@usc.edu acliu@skat.usc.edu (Simple .signature, $CHEAP$)