How to send a html file using mails in shell script?

Question

I want to store my matrix's data in a html file and send a email in outlook ,my code looks as follows:

  printf "<!DOCTYPE html>"
  printf "<html>"
  printf "<head>"
  printf "<style>"

  printf "</style>"
  printf "</head>"
  printf "<body>"

  printf "<table>"
    printf "<tr>"
     printf "<th>Total</th>"
      printf "<th>StillFail</th>"
      printf "<th>Pass</th>"
      printf "<th>ScriptError</th>"
      printf "<th>APIName</th>"
    printf "</tr>"
    printf "<tr>"
  echo
       for ((j=1;j<=num_rows;j++)) do
        printf "<tr>"
       for ((i=1;i<=num_columns;i++)) do
              printf "<td>"
              printf "${matrix[$j,$i]}"
              printf  "</td>"
        printf "</tr>"
        done
   echo
   done
  printf "</tr>"
  printf "</table>"

  printf "</body>"
  printf "</html>"
  #mailx -a 'Content-Type: html' -s "my subject" [email protected] < output.html
  mailx -s "TESTING MAIL"</home/test/example/output.html  "[email protected]"

I want my output as a well aligned table. Can someone help me on this? TIA

whats the output for this ? `mailx -a 'Content-Type: html' -s "my subject" [email protected] < output.html` — Arun pandian M, Jul 28 '17 at 06:34
my script name is parseScript.sh, so when I run this script I run as follows: ./parseScript.sh > output.html ,so that my output should store in output.html and then I am mailing that file using mail — , Jul 28 '17 at 06:36
i dont understand what your are saying anyway your mail is of content-type `text` change it to `html` are you using `mailUtils` ? — Arun pandian M, Jul 28 '17 at 06:37
Possible duplicate of [Mailx send html message](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24010230/mailx-send-html-message) — IcedAnt, Jul 28 '17 at 06:46
I have already seen that post and that command is not working for me so I asked it again here @icedant — , Jul 28 '17 at 06:47

Arun pandian M · Answer 1 · 2017-07-28T07:13:15.873

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You need to append content-type in header it can be done with -a flag in mailx

comment your last line and try this

mailx -a 'Content-Type: text/html' -s "Test MAIL" [email protected]</home/test/example/output.html

Edit :

As per the OP End error : content-type:texthtml no such file or directory

To install mailutils in mac

Press Command+Space and type Terminal and press enter/return key.
Run in Terminal app:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
and press enter/return key. Wait for the command to finish.
Run:
brew install mailutils

reference : http://macappstore.org/mailutils/

edited Jul 28 '17 at 07:13

answered Jul 28 '17 at 06:41

Arun pandian M

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it gives me this error : Content-Type: text/html: No such file or directory – Jul 28 '17 at 06:45
did you use single codes for `content-type`? as it is in the answer? – Arun pandian M Jul 28 '17 at 06:48
how did you install `mailx`? – Arun pandian M Jul 28 '17 at 06:50
it was already there when I got this Mac from my company. Possible cause of this problem can be? – Jul 28 '17 at 06:52
i tried in my linux machine it worked http://imgur.com/86de9Fn please try the answer in command line and let me know whether you get the same error – Arun pandian M Jul 28 '17 at 06:55
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/150375/discussion-between-arun-pandian-m-and-keshav-taparia). – Arun pandian M Jul 28 '17 at 07:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '17 at 09:03

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Maybe you can use this for a base:

    (
echo "To: ADRESSES"
echo "Subject: SUBJECT"
echo "Content-Type: text/html"
echo
echo "HTML code"
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F "NameOfSender" -t

answered Jul 28 '17 at 09:03

NetMonk

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How to send a html file using mails in shell script?

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