#uuencode

Mailing Attachments from the Terminal Prompt in UNIX and Linux - #mailx #uuencode

Transferring files from a UNIX or Linux server when FTP is not installed can be tricky. In my case, there was a set of log files that I needed to send to someone for analysis. After discovering that FTP was not set up on the server, I decided to try another route: zipping the logs into a single file and emailing the file to me.

First, I had to zip the files. The zip command was easy enough: zip

There's a new online tool section on the Projects page of this site that contains links to tools I've written that may be useful to other people.

There are two additions to this toolset. The first is an encoder/decoder that can handle uuencoding and base64. This can be useful if you need to do a quick conversion, but don't want to bust out Perl/Python/PHP etc. to do it.

The second addition helps convert phone alpha phrases (e.g. 1-800-MYPIZZA) into all digits. There are many such utilities on the web, but here's my take on it.

Enjoy.

Hace tiempo un buen amigo me comentó que necesitaba hacer un backup regular de la BBDD Mysql de su tienda y recibirlo por correo electrónico. Rebuscando por internet encontré una forma bastante elegante de hacerlo:

#!/bin/bash

fecha=`date +"%Y-%b-%d"`

mysqldump --user root --password=12345  basededatos > /root/dump.sql

gzip -c /root/dump.sql | uuencode dump.msql.gz  | mail -s "Backup BBDD $fecha" [email protected]

rm dump.sql

El script es bastante sencillo, pero lo explico para que quede todo claro:

En fecha guardamos la fecha actual en un formato cómodo de leer, para luego generar el asunto del mail con dicha fecha.

Con mysqldump generamos un dump de la base de datos que le pasemos (en nuestro caso nasededatos y lo redirigimos al fichero dump.sql