[plug] How to send a mail with binary attachment from a script in CentOS?

[Fred Janon]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for trying to help. I did find reference to mutt on the web, unfortunately it's not installed on my system.

Here is the content of /usr/bin again:

a2p
ac
addftinfo
addr2line
afs5log
amuFormat.sh
antlr
antlr-config
antlr-java
apropos
ar
as
aserver
at
atq
atrm
attr
audit2allow
audit2why
authconfig
authconfig-tui
autoexpect
autopoint
awk
base64
bashbug-32
batch
bc
berkeley_db_svc
build-classpath
build-classpath-directory
build-jar-repository
bunzip2
bzcat
bzcmp
bzdiff
bzgrep
bzip2
bzip2recover
bzless
bzmore
c2ph
cal
captoinfo
catchsegv
c++filt
chacl
chage
chainsaw
chattr
chcat
chcon
check-binary-files
checkmodule
checkpolicy
cheetah
cheetah-analyze
cheetah-compile
chfn
chrt
chsh
cjpeg
cksum
clean-binary-files
clear
cloud-init
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cmp
col
colcrt
colrm
column
comm
conman
conmen
consolehelper
create-jar-links
crontab
csplit
curl
cut
cvs
cvsbug
cytune
db_archive
db_checkpoint
db_codegen
db_deadlock
db_dump
db_dump185
db_hotbackup
dbilogstrip
dbiprof
dbiproxy
db_load
db_printlog
db_recover
db_stat
db_upgrade
dbus-binding-tool
db_verify
dc
ddate
diff
diff3
diff-jars
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dir
dircolors
dirname
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dprofpp
du
easy_install
easy_install-2.6
ecj
env
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ex
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expr
factor
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file
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fmt
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ftp-rfc
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gcj-dbtool
gencat
geqn
getconf
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get_module
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get_reference_source
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gij
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gjarsigner
gjdoc
gkeytool
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gneqn
gnroff
gpasswd
gpg
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gpgsplit
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gpg-zip
gpic
gprof
grefer
grepjar
grmic
grmiregistry
grn
grodvi
groff
groffer
grog
grolbp
grolj4
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groups
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gtbl
gtroff
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h2ph
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head
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host
hostid
hoststat
hpftodit
i386
iconv
id
idn
indexcon
indxbib
info
infocmp
infokey
infotocap
innochecksum
install
ionice
ipcmk
ipcrm
ipcs
isosize
java
javaws
join
jpegtran
jv-convert
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kbxutil
kdestroy
keytool
kibitz
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ksh
ksu
ktutil
kvno
last
lastb
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lastlog
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lchsh
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lddlibc4
less
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lesspipe.sh
linux32
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lkbib
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lockfile
logfactor5
logger
logname
look
lookbib
lpunlock
lsattr
lsb_release
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lua
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lz
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lzgrep
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lzma
lzmadec
lzmainfo
lzmore
m4
Mail
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mailq.sendmail
mailstat
make
makemap
man
man2html
manpath
markdown
mattrib
mbadblocks
mcat
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mcheck
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mcomp
mcookie
mcopy
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mdel
mdeltree
mdir
mdu
memhog
mesg
mformat
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migspeed
minfo
mkfifo
mkmanifest
mkpasswd
mlabel
mmd
mmount
mmove
mpartition
mrd
mren
msgattrib
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msgcomm
msgconv
msgen
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msgfilter
msgfmt
msggrep
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msginit
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msgunfmt
msguniq
mshowfat
msql2mysql
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mtoolstest
mtype
mxtar
myisamchk
myisam_ftdump
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my_print_defaults
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mysqlaccess
mysqladmin
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mysqlcheck
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mysql_find_rows
mysql_fix_extensions
mysql_fix_privilege_tables
mysqlhotcopy
mysqlimport
mysql_install_db
mysql_secure_installation
mysql_setpermission
mysqlshow
mysqlslap
mysqltest
mysql_tzinfo_to_sql
mysql_upgrade
mysql_waitpid
mysql_zap
mzip
nail
namei
nano
nc
neqn
newaliases
newaliases.sendmail
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nm
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nsupdate
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numastat
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od
oldrdist
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pic
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pr
pre-grohtml
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printf
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pstruct
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purgestat
pwdx
pydoc
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pydoc26
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quota
ranlib
rcs2log
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rdistd
rdjpgcom
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refer
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renice
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reset
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rev
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rhino
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rpcgen
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ruby
runcon
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semodule_package
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sepolgen-ifgen-attr-helper
seq
servertool
sesearch
setarch
setfacl
setfattr
setsid
setterm
setup-nsssysinit.sh
sftp
sg
sha1hmac
sha1sum
sha224sum
sha256hmac
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sha384hmac
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sha512hmac
sha512sum
shred
size
skill
slabtop
slogin
snice
soelim
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split
sprof
sqlite3
ssh
ssh-add
ssh-agent
ssh-copy-id
ssh-keygen
ssh-keyscan
stat
strings
strip
sudo
sudoedit
sum
symlinks
syslinux
systool
tabs
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tail
tailf
tbl
tclsh
tclsh8.5
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test
testrb
tfmtodit
tgz
tic
time
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timed-run
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tmpwatch
tnameserv
toe
tomcat6-digest
tomcat6-tool-wrapper
top
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tr
troff
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tsort
tty
tzselect
ul
unbuffer
unexpand
uniq
unlzma
unpack200
unshare
unxz
unzip
unzipsfx
updatedb
uptime
urlgrabber
users
utmpdump
uuidgen
uz
vdir
vim
vimdiff
vimtutor
vmstat
w
wall
watch
watchgnupg
wc
weather
wget
whatis
whereis
which
whiptail
who
whoami
write
write-mime-multipart
wrjpgcom
xargs
xgettext
xkibitz
xmlcatalog
xmllint
xml-resolver
xmlwf
xml-xparse
xml-xread
xxd
xz
xzcat
xzcmp
xzdec
xzdiff
xzegrep
xzfgrep
xzgrep
xzless
xzmore
yes
yum
zcmp
zdiff
zegrep
zfgrep
zforce
zgrep
zip
zipcloak
zipgrep
zipinfo
zipnote
zipsplit
zless
zmore
znew
zsoelim


--- On Fri, 2/4/11, Peter F Bradshaw <pfb at exadios.com> wrote:

From: Peter F Bradshaw <pfb at exadios.com>
Subject: Re: [plug] How to send a mail with binary attachment from a script in CentOS?
To: plug at plug.org.au
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 2:31 PM

Hi Fred;

I cannot see your /usr/bin - your mailer grundged it. So I cannot see
whether my method will work for you.

My method is:

mutt -s "Mail subject" -a "File to attach" "where at the.destination" < /dev/null

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Fred Janon wrote:

> Hi,
> I am looking for a script to send an email every day with a binary attachment from CentOS. I would prefer not to install an extra package but work with what is installed in the OS already. 'mail' is installed and would be perfect for the job, but it doesn't do binary attachments. I have trouble identifying any other command line email package in the system that I could use in a script, the content of "/usr/bin" follows.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Fred