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Old 12-20-2013
Wrench Formatting for mailx command
Hello all,

I am trying to send an email using mailx command.

I have a txt file which has formatting like:

Code:
root@machine# cat /export/home/test/summary.txt

                                                                 T A P O U T -  R A T I N G -  A U D I T -  S U M M A R Y - R E P O R T
                                                                                    =================================

TRANSDATE  OPERATOR CALLTYPE RECORDS_WITH_RATE_DIFF
---------- -------- -------- ----------------------
18-DEC-13  JPNJP    001                          34
17-DEC-13  JPNJP    001                          18

I am doing the following:

Code:
root@machine# LOG1=`cat /export/home/imranar/summary.txt`
root@machine# WT_MSG=`echo " $LOG1"`
root@machine# echo $WT_MSG|mailx -s " Subbject for mail" myemail@address.com

I am getting the body in the form :

Code:
T A P O U T - R A T I N G - A U D I T - S U M M A R Y - R E P O R T ================================= TRANSDATE OPERATOR CALLTYPE RECORDS_WITH_RATE_DIFF ---------- -------- -------- ---------------------- 18-DEC-13 JPNJP 001 34 17-DEC-13 JPNJP 001 18

I want the email body to show me the message in proper formatting as shown below:


Code:
                                                                 T A P O U T -  R A T I N G -  A U D I T -  S U M M A R Y - R E P O R T
                                                                                    =================================

TRANSDATE  OPERATOR CALLTYPE RECORDS_WITH_RATE_DIFF
---------- -------- -------- ----------------------
18-DEC-13  JPNJP    001                          34
17-DEC-13  JPNJP    001                          18

How can I do this ?

Regards
# 2  
Old 12-20-2013
You lose your original format with
Code:
WT_MSG=`echo " $LOG1"`

Mail the multi-line variable with
Code:
echo "$LOG1" | mail ...

# 3  
Old 12-20-2013
Why don't you use
Code:
mailx -s " Subbject for mail" myemail@address.com </export/home/imranar/summary.txt

?
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