How to pass a CTRL-D to a command line within a script?

• the uuencode is : uuencode name < sourcefile

• maybe just need a final empty line : add ; echo -e "\n\n" ; before the closing parenthesis, and try again?-

So in your case:

( cat bodyText.txt; uuencode backup.tar < backup.tar ; echo -e "\n\n" ; ) | mail -s "backup" [email protected]

Another way is using mutt which handles attachments better, and knows about mime types, etc:

mutt -s "the subject" -a backup.tar -- [email protected] < bodyText.txt