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Old 07-22-2010
unix txt files in M$: /var/adm/messages

hi
I have a script that mails me when certain event are logged in /var/adm/messages. When the mail reaches me there are no line breaks (its just one really long line) so I tried piping the output of the script to a text file which I run `unix2dos` on then mail myself that, but that didn't work.

also tried these in addition to unix2do to no avail

Code:
perl -p -e 's/\n/\r\n/' < unixfile.txt > winfile.txt
 nawk 'sub("$", "\r")' unixfile.txt > winfile.txt

any ideas?
Thank you
# 2  
Old 07-22-2010
Did you check your outlook settings, when you will open your mail, on the top, does it says
"Extra line breaks have been removed"
if yes then right click and restore the line breaks.
# 3  
Old 07-22-2010
I was being a noob thank you! that did it, pardon my ignorance
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