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Asked: 2026-06-09T17:00:08+00:00

I am trying to attach one file and send few echo messages in the

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I am trying to attach one file and send few echo messages in the Body of an email using mailx and uuencode. I have below command which I have added them together, and uuencode doesn’t work properly but I get echo message properly in my email.

How can I make uuencode works here? Something wrong I am doing here I guess while combing uuencode with mailx?

(uuencode /tmp/chart.html percentage_graph.html) | mailx -s "LIP Data Quality Report for $DATE_YEST_FORMAT1" -r rj@host.com rj@host.com <<EOF
Data Successfully loaded into LIP_DATA_QUALITY table

Total Items Purchased: `echo $QUERY1 | awk '{print $1}'`

Total Items MissingorMismatch: `echo $QUERY1 | awk '{print $2}'`

Error Percentage: $QUERY2
EOF

But for testing purpose if I issue below command to see whether I am getting any html file or not in an attachment, then I get an email with the attachment properly.

(uuencode /tmp/chart.html percentage_graph.html) | mailx -s "LIP Data Quality Report for $DATE_YEST_FORMAT1" -r rj@host.com rj@host.com

Then what’s wrong in my first command when I combine them together?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The mailx command can get its input from the pipe (uuencode) or the heredoc (<< EOF). But not both.

    This may work for you:

    $ mailx -s "LIP Data Quality Report for $DATE_YEST_FORMAT1" -r rj@example.com rj@example.com <<EOF
Data Successfully loaded into LIP_DATA_QUALITY table

Total Items Purchased: `echo $QUERY1 | awk '{print $1}'`

Total Items MissingorMismatch: `echo $QUERY1 | awk '{print $2}'`

Error Percentage: $QUERY2

$(uuencode /tmp/chart.html percentage_graph.html)

EOF

    Alternately, consider using something like mutt which will let you attach files separately from the body of the message.

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