sendmail displaying issues

Question

I'm having a issue with sendmail. I'm sending echo multiple text with sendmail (1 liner) but it isn't breaking up the line.

my code is like this:

$ echo "$text1\n$text2\n$text3\n$text4 | mail -s "subject" myemail

But somehow it just doesn't break the line, any tips?

Use echo -e "$text1\n$text2\n$text3\n$text4" | mail -s "subject" myemail — Scyld de Fraud
– Scyld de Fraud, Commented Sep 16, 2014 at 10:11
echo -e didnt work, in my mail as output it showed "-e" before my text. — tamani
– tamani, Commented Sep 16, 2014 at 10:26
You must have put -e inside quotes… I using it a lot. Works for 100%! — Scyld de Fraud
– Scyld de Fraud, Commented Sep 16, 2014 at 10:42

slm · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-16 12:24:31Z

Try this:

 $ printf "$text1\n$text2\n$text3\n$text4" | mail -s "subject" myemail

NOTE: (assuming no % in $text)

You can also do it like this too:

$ (echo $text1 ;echo $text2 ;echo $text3 ;echo $text4 ) | \ mail -s "subject" myemail

This last one creates a sub-shell with the parens wrapping the output of all the echo's. That output is then piped to the mail command.

arche, you are a hero, it worked. you helped me so often. thanks man. — tamani
– tamani, Commented Sep 16, 2014 at 10:29

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