topic Colors in Operating System - HP-UX

Colors

Manuales — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:01:41 GMT

Hi, how can i put color to the output which will be sent to the outlook through email commando. look at:

mailx -s "date "+%Y%m%d"` " $correos < ${ruta_monitor}/${b}_m.log

${b}_m.log contains:
Cat
Dog
Chair
Computer

once the file has been sent (through email command) i need "Cat" be in red color and "Chair" in blue color showed once the user has been open their email notification.

how can i do that?

thanks in advance.

Re: Colors

Torsten. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:04:24 GMT

Mail must be in html format (for example) in order to be able to be formatted. So I would consider to add a full html body and tags.

Re: Colors

Manuales — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:28:12 GMT

how could i do that?
how can i force to email command be sent as html ? and how could i put color ?

Re: Colors

OldSchool — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:28:19 GMT

basically, either you're log file would have to be formatted with html tags, or you would have to process it to add them prior to emailing. given your example & colors, at the minimum, the file being sent would need to look like this:

Cat

Dog

Chair

Computer

try pasting the above into notepad. save as demo2.html and then opening it. should pop Explorer and display.

you then send the file as an attachment. There may be other ways, but you're not going to be able to "colorize" the file without somekind of reformatting. By that, I mean that you can't send just plain-text and expect to get colors out the receiving end

Re: Colors

Raj D. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:49:59 GMT

Manuales,

You can write the html file and attach with the mail,

Ex:
------unix_col_mail.html-------

unix_color_mail

Below TEXTs in Color

Cat

Dog

Chair

# ux2dos unix_col_mail.html | uuencode unix_col_mail.html | mailx -m -s "TEST. MAIL " youremail@domain.com < Text_body_file

- Also if the mail client can support direct html code display you can send it like:

# cat unix_col_mail.html | mailx -m -s "TEST. MAIL " youremail@domain.com

Hth,
Raj.