I am new to shell script, I have an HTML file which contains table data. Now I need to send this file to mail.
mail -s "test" abc.com <test.htmlCurrently I am getting the raw HTML code for the table in mail.
I need the table content in mail as we get in Internet Explorer.
12 Answers
Try adding -a "Content-type: text/html;" to the message like this:
mail -a "Content-type: text/html;" -s "test" abc.com <test.htmlYou can easily test this by running this command that echo’s simple HTML to the mail command:
echo "<html><b>Test</b></html>" | mail -a "Content-type: text/html;" -s "test" abc.comGot this idea from this question and answer thread on Unix & Linux Stack Exchange as well as this similar thread on Stack Overflow.
If you need the html sent as attachment, then you can use the shell tool called mpack.
EDIT FOR SAMPLE:
I as a simple user send a dummy mail to root with /etc/hosts attached:
$ mpack -s 'trx of /etc/hosts' /etc/hosts root@localhostand as root, I'm checking my box:
# mail
Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001. Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/root": 1 message 1 new
& p
Message 1:
From sgombai@localhost Thu Feb 11 01:54:27 2016
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:54:27 +0100
From: sgombai <sgombai@localhost>
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: root@localhost
Subject: trx of /etc/hosts
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-"
This is a MIME encoded message. Decode it with "munpack"
or any other MIME reading software. Mpack/munpack is available
via anonymous FTP in ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/
---
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="hosts"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="hosts"
Content-MD5: 9WRRh8Yr7YPb7zo1AsgwcA==
MTI3LjAuMC4xCWxvY2FsaG9zdAo5LjE1Ny4yMTQuMTc4CXZhY21mcy52YWMuaHUuaWJtLmNv
bQl2YWNtZnMKCiMgVGhlIGZvbGxvd2luZyBsaW5lcyBhcmUgZGVzaXJhYmxlIGZvciBJUHY2
IGNhcGFibGUgaG9zdHMKOjoxICAgICBsb2NhbGhvc3QgaXA2LWxvY2FsaG9zdCBpcDYtbG9v
cGJhY2sKZmUwMDo6MCBpcDYtbG9jYWxuZXQKZmYwMDo6MCBpcDYtbWNhc3RwcmVmaXgKZmYw
Mjo6MSBpcDYtYWxsbm9kZXMKZmYwMjo6MiBpcDYtYWxscm91dGVycwpmZjAyOjozIGlwNi1h
bGxob3N0cwo=
-----So it's arrived with attachment ready to be saved/decoded by any modern mailing program.
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