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Old 02-04-2016
Convert Txt file to HTML table and email
Hi all

I need help converting a text file into a html table in bash and I need to email this table. The text file looks like the below. Two columns with multiple rows. Top row being header.

Code:
Application Name      Application Status
Application 1              Open
Application 2              Open
Application 3              Closed
Application 4              Open
......
......
......15

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-04-2016 at 09:12 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
# 2  
Old 02-05-2016
Hello hitmanjd,

Welcome to forums. Please use code tags as per forum rules for commands/inputs/codes which you are using into your posts. Could you please try following and let me know if this helps you.
Code:
cat send_html_email.ksh
PWD=`pwd`
OUTPUT_FILE=$PWD"/Output_file"
INPUT_FILE=$PWD"/Input_file"
MAILFROM=ravinder_singh@singh_is_king.com
MAILTO=ravinder_singh@singh_is_king.com
SUBJECT="Html format report in email"
echo "<html>" > $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "<title>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "A Test script." >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "</title>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "<table border="4">" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "<tr>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "<th>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "Application Name" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "</th>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "<th>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "Application Status" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "</th>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "</tr>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
i=0
while read f1 f2 f3
do
        let "i = i + 1"
        if [[ $i == 1 ]]
        then
                continue;
        fi
        echo "<tr>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
        echo "<td>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
        echo $f1 $f2 >> $OUTPUT_FILE
        echo "</td>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
        echo "<td>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
        echo $f3 >> $OUTPUT_FILE
        echo "</td>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
        echo "</tr>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
done < "$INPUT_FILE"
echo "</table>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "</body>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
echo "</html>" >> $OUTPUT_FILE
  
sendmail_touser() {
cat - ${OUTPUT_FILE} <<EOF | /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t
From: ${MAILFROM}
To: ${MAILTO}
Subject: $SUBJECT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MIME-Version: 1.0
EOF
}
sendmail_touser

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 3  
Old 02-06-2016
Hi.

I have used utility t2t for years to solve such problems. Here's a demonstration:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate utility to produce HTML tables, t2t.
# http://www.scholnick.net/t2t

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
LC_ALL=C ; LANG=C ; export LC_ALL LANG
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C t2t

FILE=${1-data1}
SCR=f1

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat -A $FILE

# Change multiple spaces to TABs:
sed 's/   */\t/g' $FILE > $SCR
pl " Modified input file $SCR:"
cat -A $SCR

pl " Results, output file is ${SCR}.html:"
# Below is for single spaces as delimiters.
# t2t --delim " " --squeeze --header --overwrite $FILE
t2t --header --overwrite $SCR

exit 0

producing:
Code:
$ ./s1

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 3.16.0-4-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 8.3 (jessie) 
bash GNU bash 4.3.30
t2t 7.3.1

-----
 Input data file data1:
Application Name      Application Status$
Application 1              Open$
Application 2              Open$
Application 3              Closed$
Application 4              Open$

-----
 Modified input file f1:
Application Name^IApplication Status$
Application 1^IOpen$
Application 2^IOpen$
Application 3^IClosed$
Application 4^IOpen$

-----
 Results, output file is f1.html, see attachment

The link for t2t is in the comments of the script.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
f1.html (813 Bytes) 
 
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