Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to use Linux mail command on red hat linux. It is working fine except when there is hardcoded "\n" characters in the file content i want to send. It is literally taking "\n" as text and message is not getting formatted to give newliine effect.

I am using the following command:

cat ${file-name} | mail -s "Sub" "a.b@c.com"

if the file is regular file with newlines, the output is fine.

But when "\n" is in the text... For Eg:

file contents are like:
ab\ncdefgh\n
add\nadda\n

then it is taking all those \n as characters and printing in the mail as it is. I was expecting it to format as newline as mailx does on solaris.

Please let me know my options.

I already tried:

echo -e
printf

If \n is embedded in a normal text file, then it will treat \n as normal character.
Try this...

Code:

awk '{print "echo -e \""$0"\""}' inputfile | bash | mail -s ...

--ahamed

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or

Code:

xargs -0 -I arg echo -e arg  < input_file | mail -s...

--ahamed

Code:

$ echo -e "$(<file-name)"|mailx -s "Sub" "a.b@c.com"

Thanks a lot
This seems to be working for most of the scenario except html.