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Posted by: Skuzzle

I have an 800mb archive.. now its been split to 2mb files but i need to find a way to email these files all to the same address.

As you can imagine, setting up a new email for each is not an option as this may be happening regularly.

Any ideas on a script or other similar method ??

Posted by: ainstushar

i have other alternative, if you just want to transfer the files, then use hosting services like megaupload and rapidshare or yousendit. I don't know a lot about linux scripting, but i think that you can easily do it with php. hope that helps.

Posted by: Skuzzle

nope.. not what im looking for. I have a googlemail account with 2.8gb so thats why i want to email

although saying that, php may be the way forward.

Posted by: Skuzzle

ok I have set up postfix and am using mutt now and can happily send attachments via command line using

mutt -s "backup" -a /home/backup.tar.gz

But now I can also use split to make it into 2mb files.

Any ideas on how id write a script to run through all of the files in a folder and operate that mutt command ??

Posted by: mBernhardt

If you can name all the archives using a predictable system you could setup a for loop or something like that.

for x = 1 to 200 do whatever

I don't know the exact syntax off the top of my head. But something along those lines would be worth looking into.

Posted by: Skuzzle

very simple this was :P
pretty much

for u
do
blah blah mail command blah
done