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Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

 
Thierry Doppler
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mailx text files lost CR-Character

Hi,

I create a text file with tail -20 /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log > textfile. If i look in the file is evething ok, text appears as on the screen.
If I send it with mailx (pg textfile > mailx ...), the text appears in the mail of only one line, without Carriage Returns ! Also not easy to read it. I's the same with more > mailx.
Any idea ?
Thank you.
Thierry
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CAS_2
Valued Contributor

Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

Which type of computer do you read the received e-mail ? Windows ? Mac ? Unix ?
Pete Randall
Outstanding Contributor

Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

Try "dos2ux textfile > mailx"


Pete

Pete
RAC_1
Honored Contributor

Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

man dos2ux and ux2dos
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Muthukumar_5
Honored Contributor

Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

You have to change file encoding type with dos2ux utility.

dos2ux file > dosfile
ps dosfile > mailx

hth.
Easy to suggest when don't know about the problem!
James R. Ferguson
Acclaimed Contributor

Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

Hi Thierry:

If you are moving a file from UNIX to Windows, you need to replace newline (LF) characters as line-delimiters with carriage-return (CR) + newline (LF) ones.

On HP-UX you have:

'ux2dos' and 'dos2ux'

See the manpage for 'ux2dos'.

The first adds the CR. The second strips it out.

Regards!

...JRF...
Thierry Doppler
Frequent Advisor

Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

umh ... sorry for the trouble ...

It was not better with ux2dos/dos2ux, but ...

i found an option in ... Outlook. In extras > Options > Email options > remove extra line breaks (or something else, i have an german MS Office version).

Now it's good.

Thank you for your help.

Thierry
Florian Heigl (new acc)
Honored Contributor

Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

Outlook 2003 has had a change where it will actively strip out what it considers to be 'unnecessary' line breaks.

dos2ux should help, otherwise You could uuencode the text.
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Florian Heigl (new acc)
Honored Contributor

Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

Hey - now You solved my problem instead of the other way round ;)
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Jeff Lightner_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: mailx text files lost CR-Character

Oddly enough just did this - wanted it as an attachment instead of in line (file bad 70,000 lines).

On my HP-UX server:
ux2dos originalfile >newfile
uuencode newfile |mailx -s "Newfile you wanted" -r myaddress@mydomain myaddress@mydomain

The ux2dos adds the exta carriage retrun needed for DOS/Windows ASCII (you'll see this as a "^M" at the end of every line if you vi the file in HP-UX.

The uuencode prevents it from being parsed by the mailer - just goes in as an attachment to the mail.

mailx options:
-s Specifies the subject
-r Specifies the return address the recipient will see (otherwise if you do it as root they'll see return as root@hostname.domain)