MAILX - email body not giving "new line"

[simpson]

I have created a flat file from a grep | awk statement that I am passing to a mailx statement but when the email shows up it is not displaying the new line chars. I can pass the mailx statement most other files and they show up fine. i.e. /etc/hosts. When I view the file (using vi or cat) it looks okay, just shows up wrong in the email.

mailx -s "Audit" user@domain.net < $mail_file

everything is on the same line.

If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it. thanks

 

[fpmurphy]

Your mailx syntax is correct. It is something to do with the generated file at your end or with the mail handler at the other end.

Suggest you use od or similar to check the contents of the file to see what is occuring.

Are you going between GNU/Linux or UNIX and Windows or Mac environments?

 

[J1mbo]

Have you tried unix2dos?

unix2dos $mail_file | mailx -s "Audit" user@domain.net

 

[mrn]

Try

uuencode info.txt anotherfile.txt | mailx -s "test" name@server.com


Mike

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