Sending zip file containing plain txt file via email

Question

How to send a plain txt file in a zip file via email in unix? The contents in the txt file should be word wrap.

Solution

To wrap the text file you can use fold (see fold man page)

For example

fold -w 78 -s input.txt > wrapped.txt

will wrap your text to a maximum width of 78 characters. You can then use zip to compress it

zip wrapped.zip wrapped.txt 

and then send it per email with mail

mail -a wrapped.zip -s "Subject of the mail" [email protected]

(not all versions of mail support the -a option)

Comments

[Matteo]

Why the down vote?

[Anthon]

These are multiple questions: 1) how to word wrap a text file; 2) how to zip a plain txt file; 3) how to email a zip file as an attachment. What exactly have you tried for each and what is not working?

[Anthon]

@Matteo If you hover above the down vote arrow it says "This question does not show any research effort", I think that is applicable on each of the 3 questions asked.