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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with formating when using mailx Post 302650193 by RB26DETT on Friday 1st of June 2012 07:27:39 PM
Old 06-01-2012
Help with formating when using mailx
Hi I am a newbie here. I tried searching for the solution but I guess I either didn't find it or there hasn't been one posted.

my problem is I spooled the results of a query into a .txt file. When I cat the file the formating looks great. All the columns are aligned. However once I mailx the file to myself the formating is off. I tried playing with the set values in the query to compensate but mailx just seems to screw it up. How can I mail the results to myself with the formating still intact?

The spooling in the query is a simple
Code:
SPOOL ${BASE_DIR}/Report_${DATESTAMP}.txt;

I'm just using a simple
Code:
mailx -s "Subject" email < Report_${DATESTAMP}.txt

Last edited by methyl; 06-02-2012 at 05:05 PM.. Reason: please use code tags
 

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PARSEWIKI(1)							   User Commands						      PARSEWIKI(1)

NAME

       parsewiki - transform marked text into HTML, XHTML, Docbook or LaTeX

SYNOPSIS

       parsewiki [OPTION]... [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the parsewiki command.  This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original
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       parsewiki is a program that transform a text file with a very minimal Wiki style syntax into other formats, including HTML, XHTML,  Docbook
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