SENDFILES(1)

🌸 SENDFILES(1) — the sendfiles page, bestie edition 🌸

okay so this is a page from the General Commands Manual (it lives in the nmh family, iykyk) and it's literally about yeeting a whole pile of files at someone over email 💌

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✨ NAME ✨

sendfiles — send multiple files by MIME message with nmh 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sendfiles [-help] [-version] [-compress bzip2 | compress | gzip | lzma |
     none]
     [-from sender]
     -to recipient -subject subject | recipient subject
     file/directory1 [file/directory2 ...]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So. sendfiles is a shell script, and its whole job is sending a collection of files and directories via electronic mail 📧✨

Here's the vibe: sendfiles archives the files and directories you name using the tar command, and then it mails that compressed archive off to the recipient with the given subject. That's it, that's the whole moment 💅

• -to — this switch specifies the recipient 🫶
• -subject — this switch specifies the subject ✨

and here's the cute part: those two required values can also just be handed over without their corresponding switch names. no switch, no problem, she'll figure it out 🙈

• -from — can, and should, be used to specify the sender's mailbox (name and email address). alternatively, the PERSON environment variable can be used for the same purpose 👑
• if neither one is used, sendfiles will supply a “From:” header field using the sender's local mailbox — see localmbox in mh-format(5) 📮
• -compress — this command line switch can be used to override the run-time determination of the compression program by sendfiles 🗜️
• -compress none (alternatively, -none) — disables compression. that's it. raw archive, no zip, no thoughts, head empty 🍓

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🌈 Extracting the Received Files 🌈

bestie when the message lands, here's what you do: invoke mhstore once for the received message.

The default is for mhstore to write the archive to a file where you can subsequently uncompress and untar it. For instance:

$ mhlist -verbose 9
 msg part  type/subtype             size description
   9       application/octet-stream 118K
             (extract with uncompress | tar xvpf -)
             type=tar
             conversions=compress
$ mhstore 9
$ uncompress < 9.tar.Z | tar xvpf -

Alternately, by using the -auto switch, mhstore will automatically do the extraction for you 😌✨

$ mhlist -verbose 9
 msg part  type/subtype             size description
   9       application/octet-stream 118K
             (extract with uncompress | tar xvpf -)
             type=tar
             conversions=compress
$ mhstore -auto 9
-- tar listing appears here as files are extracted

As the second tar listing is generated, the files are extracted 🔥

okay listen, this is the important one: a prudent user will never put -auto in the .mh_profile file. 🚨 The correct procedure is to first use mhlist to find out what will be extracted. Then mhstore can be invoked with -auto to perform the extraction. look before you leap, fr fr 💀

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✨ FILES ✨

• $HOME/.mh_profile — The user profile 🏠

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✨ PROFILE COMPONENTS ✨

• Path: — To determine the user's nmh directory 📁
• Current-Folder: — To find the default current folder 📂

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

mhbuild(1), mhlist(1), mhshow(1), mhstore(1), mh-format(5) 🫶

Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation (RFC 934) 📜

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✨ DEFAULTS ✨

• -delay 0
• -from localmbox

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✨ CONTEXT ✨

None. nothing. not a single one. empty. the void. 🕳️

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and that's the page, bestie!! this whole thing is from nmh-1.8, dated 2012-11-14 🌸✨ go forth and send your files, you absolute icon 👑💖