norm(_at_)dad(_dot_)dad(_dot_)org writes:
I wonder if somebody could answer two questions for me.
How can I attach a directory (preferably compressed) and, recursively, its
contents to a message?
tar+gzip/zip it up into a file and attach the file to the message as described
in "man mhbuild" or do something like:
#application/x-gzip |tar -zcf - directory
To tar it up on the fly (instead of creating the tar file yourself and
attaching that). Replace the command with whatever command you want
to use to archive a directory.
How could I have answered this question for myself? Neither "man mhbuild"
nor
'cat /etc/nmh/mhn.defaults' helped.
"man mhbuild" tells you how to attach a file, and how to attach the output
of a program to a message.
It isn't going to tell you how to archive and compress a directory since that
isn't the domain of a mail client, that's the domain of an archive and/or a
compression program.
Just like it tells you how to attach an audio file, but doesn't tell you
how to create an audio file of the song you just wrote.
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