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# 1  
Old 08-05-2013
Sending HTML Email
1) Can you please provide me with a best example of how to send an HTML email via mutt or mail or send email commands using bash shell.

2) I tried below but i am not able to get the variable values in the HTML email output.

Code:
(cat <<-EOT
<html>
<head><title></title> </head>
<body>
<p>Hello, world!</p>
<table border="1">
<tr>
        <th>HASH_TOTALS</th>
        <th>HASH_TOTALS_COMP</th>
        <th>DIFFERENCE</th>
</tr>
</tr>
        <td>`printf "%s" "$TOT_LOAN_ROW_COUNT"`</td>
        <td>$COMP_LOAN_ROW_COUNT</td>
        <td>$COMP_LOAN_ROW_COUNT</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
EOT
) | mutt -e "my_hdr Content-Type: text/html" "xyz@123456.com" -s "html test"

Output:
Quote:
HASH_TOTALS HASH_TOTALS_COMP DIFFERENCE
It is just printing headers but not expanding the variables.

thank you.
# 2  
Old 08-05-2013
Try simply echoing:
Code:
{
        echo "
        <html>
        <head><title></title> </head>
        <body>
                <p>Hello, world!</p>
                <table border="1">
                <tr>
                        <th>HASH_TOTALS</th>
                        <th>HASH_TOTALS_COMP</th>
                        <th>DIFFERENCE</th>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                        <td>${TOT_LOAN_ROW_COUNT}</td>
                        <td>${COMP_LOAN_ROW_COUNT}</td>
                        <td>${COMP_LOAN_ROW_COUNT}</td>
                </tr>
                </table>
        </body>
        </html>
        "
} | mutt -e "my_hdr Content-Type: text/html" "xyz@123456.com" -s "html test"

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Ariean
# 3  
Old 08-05-2013
What shell are you using? in my bash, it works perfectly, expanding the variables as desired. Try it without the pipe to mutt first.
# 4  
Old 08-06-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Try simply echoing:
Code:
{
        echo "
        <html>
        <head><title></title> </head>
        <body>
                <p>Hello, world!</p>
                <table border="1">
                <tr>
                        <th>HASH_TOTALS</th>
                        <th>HASH_TOTALS_COMP</th>
                        <th>DIFFERENCE</th>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                        <td>${TOT_LOAN_ROW_COUNT}</td>
                        <td>${COMP_LOAN_ROW_COUNT}</td>
                        <td>${COMP_LOAN_ROW_COUNT}</td>
                </tr>
                </table>
        </body>
        </html>
        "
} | mutt -e "my_hdr Content-Type: text/html" "xyz@123456.com" -s "html test"

how do i put thousand seperator & () for negative numbers inside the HTML table like
Code:
519,090,514.68

&
Code:
(0.32)

for -.32.

I am using bc for finding the difference from which i got negative numbers example:
Code:
`echo ${TOT_BOOK_VALUE_DOLLARS}-${COMP_BOOK_VALUE_DOLLARS} | bc`

# 5  
Old 08-06-2013
Yes, you can use bc for floating point comparison and sed to put thousand separator.

Here is an example checking the value of variable: TOT_LOAN_ROW_COUNT
Code:
if [ $( echo "$TOT_LOAN_ROW_COUNT < 0" | bc ) -eq 1 ]
then
        TOT_LOAN_ROW_COUNT="(${TOT_LOAN_ROW_COUNT})"
else
        TOT_LOAN_ROW_COUNT=$( echo "$TOT_LOAN_ROW_COUNT" | sed -e :a -e 's/\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)/\1,\2/;ta' )
fi

# 6  
Old 08-06-2013
With some implementations of the printf utility (not all, because it is not required to support either the apostrophe flag or floating point), you can easily format the value to contain a thousands separator and then add the parenthesis for negative values with sed:
Code:
printf "%'.2f\n" "$amount" | sed 's/^\(-.*\)/(&)/'

Regards,
Alister
# 7  
Old 08-07-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
With some implementations of the printf utility (not all, because it is not required to support either the apostrophe flag or floating point), you can easily format the value to contain a thousands separator and then add the parenthesis for negative values with sed:
Code:
printf "%'.2f\n" "$amount" | sed 's/^\(-.*\)/(&)/'

Regards,
Alister
I executed the below statement i still see the hyphen symbol "-" prepended, is there a way to remove that as well.

Code:
printf "%'.2f\n" "-501.12" | sed 's/^\(-.*\)/(&)/'

Output:
Code:
(-501.12)

thanks much, appreciate it.
Last edited by Ariean; 08-07-2013 at 10:20 AM..
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