Mailing images using a bash script

[vert]

I've set up several scripts on my system that mail me different things of interest everyday (such as portage updates ). This is all done in standard bash. But how can I include pictures (or other binary files) in the mails the bash scripts create? I think it can be done with MIME in some way or something like uuencode. Anybody know how to do this? Thnx!

[steveb]

have a closer look at mpack:

[DamnDirtyApe]

If you're willing to veer away from shell scripting, Perl's MIME::Lite module (http://search.cpan.org/author/ERYQ/MIME-Lite-2.117/lib/MIME/Lite.pm) does an excellent job of such things.

[vert]

Well, I toyed with the idea of starting with perl or python or something like that, but I haven't gotten around to that. Would you say that learning such a language is worth the effort for such simple things as scripts for notification mails and simple maintenance (backup for example)? By the way, I got it working with mpack. So I'm happy for the moment

[DamnDirtyApe]