Mike, I'm sorry this is coming late, but I'm nearly a week late at
catching up to the SLUG list.
I believe the correct way to do this, as an attachment, is to do the following:
mail - s "mebs backup" someone@somewhere.com
~r /the/exact/path/of/mebsbackup.tgz
Ctrl-D
The "tilde r" in the man page(off my cuff) for "mail" states:
starting from the first column with "~r", proceeding with a space,
and then a path/filename, will attach the file upon executing a
carriage return. I hope I've helped, and I'm not too late.
Mario
>I'm trying to setup an automated database backup. I'm using mysqldump to
>dump the data to a text file and then tar the file up (it's not a large
>database) and then I would like to send it to a user on a differnet
>system. This is the command I'm using
>mail -s "mebs backup" somone@somewhere.com < mebsbackup.tgz
>
>This will send the file but not as an attachement to the email. I do get
>the contents of the file but I was hoping for a file "mebsbackup.tgz"
>that I could save on my system.
>Any ideas how to do this?
>Thanks
>Mike M
>
>--
>perl -ne'chomp;$a.=pack"h*",$_;END{print"\n$a\n\n"}'<<RM
>c496e657870225f636b6371202d49636f62737f6664702355736b637
>12a0
>RM
>
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