Hello,

I have a bash shell script and I use awk to print certain columns of one file and direct the output to another file. If I do a less or cat on the file it looks correct, but if I email the file and open it with Outlook the lines outputted by awk are concatenated.

Here is my awk line:
awk '{print $6" "$7" "$8" "$9" "$5}' /data/tmp/snapshots_report.deltas >> $EMAIL_BODY

I use a perl script to email it.

Here is how it looks with cat:
[root@rmhesx01 tmp]# cat snapshots_report.email
Adam1:
Jan 12 11:19 Adam1-000001-delta.vmdk 7.0K
Jan 12 11:19 Adam1-000002-delta.vmdk 7.0K
Jan 12 11:19 Adam1-000003-delta.vmdk 16M
Jan 12 11:19 Adam1_1-000001-delta.vmdk 10K
Jan 12 11:19 Adam1_1-000002-delta.vmdk 10K
Jan 12 11:19 Adam1_1-000003-delta.vmdk 10K

Centramax:
Jan 12 11:19 Centramax-000001-delta.vmdk 16M

Looks like this in my email client:

Adam1:
Jan 12 11:19 Adam1-000001-delta.vmdk 7.0K Jan 12 11:19 Adam1-000002-delta.vmdk 7.0K Jan 12 11:19 Adam1-000003-delta.vmdk 16M Jan 12 11:19 Adam1_1-000001-delta.vmdk 10K Jan 12 11:19 Adam1_1-000002-delta.vmdk 10K Jan 12 11:19 Adam1_1-000003-delta.vmdk 10K

Centramax:
Jan 12 11:19 Centramax-000001-delta.vmdk 16M

I know that linux uses LF for newline and windows uses CRLF, but I cant figure out if that is what is causing this issue. I have tried adding "\n" to my awk statement but then I get double-spacing which I dont want.

Any ideas?