Hi ,

I am not getting the right file when i tried to send a file using mail commands

Actual file I am trying to send is
SourceRecordCount|TargetRecordCount|SourceDebitsTo tal|TargetDebitsTotal|SourceCreditsTotal|TargetCre ditsTotal
250778|262498|89526460118.70|97344532806.30|895264 60118.70|97344532806.30


but when i look at the sent mail output file is like below with
SourceRecordCount|TargetRecordCount|SourceDebitsTo tal|TargetDebitsTotal|SourceCreditsTotal|TargetCre ditsTotal
250778|262498|89526460118.70|97344532806.30|895264 60118.70|97344532806.3
250778|262498|0

But my question is why I am getting extra lines in the bold in the mail....
I have checked for any unprintable characters or special characters in the file but i don't see any... this is only happening with the first line...

Can anyone help me figureout what I am doing wrong...

Thanks
Mark.

What commands are you using?
Have you tried sending data as attachment?

Code:

uuencode MyData File1.txt|mailx -s"Data file attached" foo@bar.com

I am using mailx command to send the mail

mailx -s "Hi" mark@ford.com < file.txt

Thanks
Mark.

Somehow mailx is interpreting the pipe (|) character and 'wrapping' the line.
You can either use another character (like ~ or ^), or send the file as attachment.

Somehow mailx is interpreting the pipe (|) character and 'wrapping' the line.
You can either use another character (like ~ or ^), or send the file as attachment.

I found out your problem, you have space characters here: |SourceDebitsTo tal| and here: |895264 60118.70|
Disregard the previous posting about the 'pipe' character.

Thanks for your reply,

But as you said, space is not causing the issue, when i removed the space and tried the same command, somehow i am getting the same wrong output as i was getting previously,.... i couldn't figurout what else is causing the problem....

when i copy the same line in the file as 10 additional lines, i am getting error for first line but remaining 10 lines data looks good..

Thanks
Mark.

Thanks, Brown...

You are right when i changed delimeter to ','... it is working ...Thanks

But still Can you explain why'|' is interpreted as wrapping the line..

Thanks
Mark.

Quote:

Originally Posted by markjason You are right when i changed delimeter to ','... it is working ...Thanks But still Can you explain why'|' is interpreted as wrapping the line..

Cannot explain, first time I see this behavior. Seems to be it somehow recognizes the 'pipe' and if the line is more than a certain amount of characters, it splits the line and generates some 'key' value for the rest of the slices.