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# 1  
Old 07-23-2013
How to escape the tabspaces while sending email?
Hello All,

I have below excerpt from a shell script(bash) and the output from it as shown below. How do i make the email come out with message body left justified. As of now because of those tabs the message is coming out with those tab spaces. May i please know how can i supress them?

Code:
                if [ $( echo "${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS} == ${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}" | bc -l ) -eq 1 ]
                then
                        logit "Principal Balance Dollars For Uninum($UNINUM): ${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS} Matches With ${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}"
                else
                        logit "Principal Balance Dollars For Uninum($UNINUM): ${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS} Doesn't Match With ${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}"
                        ((i+=1))
                        #ARR[$i]="Principal Balance Dollars For Uninum($UNINUM): '${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}' Doesn't Match With '${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}'"
                        ARR[$i]="
                                Uninum: $UNINUM
                                Provider: $PROVIDER
                                Principal Balance Dollars: '${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}' Doesn't Match With '${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}'
                                "
                fi


  if [ ${#ARR[*]} -gt 0 ]
        then
                logit "Array is not empty, Email Will Be Sent Out As The Hash Total Comparisions Is NOT Successful"
                #printf "%s\r\n" "${ARR[@]}" | /usr/bin/mutt -s "ALERT: Stage Hash Total Comparision Inconsistencies" "${EMAIL_LIST}" -i "${6}"
                printf "%s\r\n" "${ARR[@]}" | /usr/bin/mutt -s "$HOST - $DBSRC - ALERT: Stage Hash Total Comparision Inconsistencies" "${EMAIL_LIST}"
        else
                logit "Array is empty, Email Will Not Be Sent Out As The Hash Total Comparisions Is Successful"
        fi

Email Body Output:

Code:
				Uninum: 710056
				Provider: 16
				Principal Balance Dollars: '183498286.85' Doesn't Match With '183498285'

Last edited by Ariean; 07-23-2013 at 02:25 PM..
# 2  
Old 07-23-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ariean
Hello All,

I have below excerpt from a shell script(bash) and the output from it as shown below. How do i make the email come out with message body left justified. As of now because of those tabs the message is coming out with those tab spaces. May i please know how can i supress them?

Code:
                if [ $( echo "${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS} == ${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}" | bc -l ) -eq 1 ]
                then
                        logit "Principal Balance Dollars For Uninum($UNINUM): ${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS} Matches With ${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}"
                else
                        logit "Principal Balance Dollars For Uninum($UNINUM): ${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS} Doesn't Match With ${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}"
                        ((i+=1))
                        #ARR[$i]="Principal Balance Dollars For Uninum($UNINUM): '${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}' Doesn't Match With '${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}'"
                        ARR[$i]="
                                Uninum: $UNINUM
                                Provider: $PROVIDER
                                Principal Balance Dollars: '${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}' Doesn't Match With '${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}'
                                "
                fi

Email Body Output:

Code:
				Uninum: 710056
				Provider: 16
				Principal Balance Dollars: '183498286.85' Doesn't Match With '183498285'

Change:
Code:
                        ARR[$i]="
                                Uninum: $UNINUM
                                Provider: $PROVIDER
                                Principal Balance Dollars: '${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}' Doesn't Match With '${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}'
                                "

to:
Code:
                        ARR[$i]="
Uninum: $UNINUM
Provider: $PROVIDER
Principal Balance Dollars: '${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}' Doesn't Match With '${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}'
"

# 3  
Old 07-23-2013
I thought i could use something similar to this "<<-EOF ....... EOF" but it's not working. Just want to make code more readable and pretty
# 4  
Old 07-23-2013
There are lots of ways to set a variable to a string value. When you put tabs in the string and you later print the saved value, the tabs will be there. The suggestion I made before is fast, efficient, and pretty obvious; but not pretty. If you want pretty, but less efficient, one possibility (out of thousands of possibilities) is:
Code:
                        ARR[$i]="$(printf "\n%s\n%s\n%s %s %s %s\n" \
                                 "Uninum: $UNINUM" \
                                 "Provider: $PROVIDER" \
                                 "Principal Balance Dollars:" \
                                 "'${TOT_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}'" \
                                 "Doesn't Match With" \
                                 "'${COMP_PRINCIPAL_BALANCE_DOLLARS}'")"

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