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Hi, I need to send a email as a txt file and i used the commands,


Code:

Code:

(echo `echo $EMAIL_MSG` ; uuencode "file.txt" "file.txt" ) | mailx -s "$EMAIL_SUBJECT" "$EMAIL_ID"

I received email with a attachment with all data but i get all of them in one row.

For example:
If file.txt contains value as below
1
2
3
4
5

I receive them as 1 2 3 4 5. All in one row which i don't want....

I need them as it is.. like
1
2
3
4
5

Can anyone please help me ?

Thanks in advance!

Code:

echo `echo $EMAIL_MSG`

This is a useless use of backticks. echo `echo something` seems especially futile since all you want to do is echo it!

The newlines are being stripped out because you didn't put EMAIL_MSG in quotes.

Try

Code:

(echo "$EMAIL_MSG" ; uuencode "file.txt" "file.txt" ) |
        mailx -s "$EMAIL_SUBJECT" "$EMAIL_ID"

Thanks for the reply!

I tried using the above command and it gives the same result.

Still I'm getting them in one row.

any other suggestions please ?


Thank you!

Where is your EMAIL_MSG variable coming from?

EMAIL_MSG="Attachment contains the report"

I had harcoded the EMAIL_MSG as above.

I'm not having much getting uuencode/uudecode to work at ALL. They're really strange things.

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What system are you checking the emails in? It may just be a windows carriage-return vs unix newline thing. Add carriage returns with sed 's/$/\r/' < infile.txt > tosend.txt

Any other option without using uuencode/uudecode with all these parameters ?

Can you please suggest ?

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I don't understand .

Could you please explain me how to use with uuencode above ?