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# 1  
Old 07-02-2012
[Solved] line breaks missing when emailed from unix to win
hi

i am sending an email from unix to windows platform and using uuencode to attach the plain text files (.txt). But when i read the attached file in notepad the linebreaks are gone.

Code:
 
uuencode samplefile.txt samplefile.txt | mail -s "test email" <mailid.com>

if i copy paste the same text in textpad im able to see the line breaks. is there a way i can see the same way in the notepad
# 2  
Old 07-02-2012
Windows uses \r\n as \ line break whereas Unix uses \n. You can pre-filter file like so:
Code:
sed 's/$/\r/' <samplefile.txt >sampleflie.win.txt

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# 3  
Old 07-02-2012
i tried the command

Code:
sed 's/$/\r/' <samplefile.txt >sampleflie.win.txt

there is no change in the way i see the text in the mail attachment, i checked in the text file (changed by the command) and found there is an extra 'r' at the end of all lines.

do we need to change any thing in the above command
# 4  
Old 07-02-2012
It would help to know what Operating System and version you have.
Most mainstream unix have the ux2dos or unix2dos conversion program. Run the conversion before the uuencode.
Not all versions of sed recognise \r.
Last edited by methyl; 07-03-2012 at 08:45 AM.. Reason: minor typo
# 5  
Old 07-03-2012
the operating system is AIX version 6

ux2dos and unix2dos are not in the system.... is there any other way to convert the files into dos format
# 6  
Old 07-03-2012
If your sed doesn't recognise carriage return \r use a tool that does
Code:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/$/\r/' path/to/file

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# 7  
Old 07-04-2012
Thanks ... that is working
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