# mail multi-line format **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 23, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mail-multi-line-format/38153 "2023-06-23T16:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dbs34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dbs34](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dbs34)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mail-multi-line-format/38153/1 "2023-06-23T16:40:48Z")
Hello! I have tried various ways to get my output to email in a readable format, with newlines, but ansible strips them off everytime. Its just a few shell commands i am testing. I’ve tried a for loop, with items, replace, etc. My email output is all on one-line like so: "- ’ 12:23:27 up 64 days, 1:36, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.08, 0.02’ - USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT - ‘dbsxxx pts/0 ho-it-dbsxxx-dt Tue08 19:39m 0.16s 0.30s sshd: dbsxxxx [priv]’ - root pts/1 ho-lx-ansible01. 12:23 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s /usr/bin/w - Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on - devtmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev/shm - tmpfs 11G 1.1G 9.1G 11% /run - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup - /dev/mapper/rootvg-root 46G 28G 19G 61% / - /dev/mapper/rootvg-home 10G 33M 10G 1% /home - /dev/sda1 1.1G 383M 656M 37% /boot - /dev/mapper/satvg-satlv01 503G 408G 96G 82% /var/satellite - /dev/mapper/oravg-oralv01 142G 41G 102G 29% /opt/oracle - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/0 - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/1922732921 " my yaml code is: - name: DF + UPTIME PLAYBOOK hosts: “\*” gather\_facts: false tasks: - shell: | /usr/bin/w /usr/bin/df -h register: dfu - debug: var=dfu.stdout\_lines - name: mail result community.general.mail: sender: [ro...@ho-lx-ansible.xxxxxx.com](mailto:ro...@ho-lx-ansible.xxxxxx.com) host: [internal-smtp.xxxxxx.com](http://internal-smtp.xxxxxx.com) subtype: html body: How do I tell ansible to output in a email format like the way I see it from the debug output on my screen? ok: [ho-lx-sys-olm01] =\> dfu.stdout\_lines: - ’ 12:23:27 up 64 days, 1:36, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.08, 0.02’ - USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT - ‘dbxxxx pts/0 ho-it-dbxxx-dt Tue08 19:39m 0.16s 0.30s sshd: dbsxxx [priv]’ - root pts/1 ho-lx-ansible01. 12:23 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s /usr/bin/w - Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on - devtmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev/shm - tmpfs 11G 1.1G 9.1G 11% /run - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup - /dev/mapper/rootvg-root 46G 28G 19G 61% / - /dev/mapper/rootvg-home 10G 33M 10G 1% /home - /dev/sda1 1.1G 383M 656M 37% /boot - /dev/mapper/satvg-satlv01 503G 408G 96G 82% /var/satellite - /dev/mapper/oravg-oralv01 142G 41G 102G 29% /opt/oracle - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/0 - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/1922732921 thank you! ---
**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mail-multi-line-format/38153/2 "2023-06-23T17:32:06Z")
> Hello! > > I have tried various ways to get my output to email in a readable format, with newlines, but ansible strips them off everytime. Its just a few shell commands i am testing. I’ve tried a for loop, with items, replace, etc. My email output is all on one-line like so: > > "- ’ 12:23:27 up 64 days, 1:36, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.08, 0.02’ - USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT - ‘dbsxxx pts/0 ho-it-dbsxxx-dt Tue08 19:39m 0.16s 0.30s sshd: dbsxxxx [priv]’ - root pts/1 ho-lx-ansible01. 12:23 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s /usr/bin/w - Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on - devtmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev/shm - tmpfs 11G 1.1G 9.1G 11% /run - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup - /dev/mapper/rootvg-root 46G 28G 19G 61% / - /dev/mapper/rootvg-home 10G 33M 10G 1% /home - /dev/sda1 1.1G 383M 656M 37% /boot - /dev/mapper/satvg-satlv01 503G 408G 96G 82% /var/satellite - /dev/mapper/oravg-oralv01 142G 41G 102G 29% /opt/oracle - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/0 - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/1922732921 " > > my yaml code is: > > - name: DF + UPTIME PLAYBOOK > hosts: “\*” > gather\_facts: false > > tasks: > > - shell: | > /usr/bin/w > /usr/bin/df -h > register: dfu > > - debug: var=dfu.stdout\_lines > > - name: mail result > community.general.mail: > sender: [ro…@ho-lx-ansible.xxxxxx.com](mailto:ro...@ho-lx-ansible.xxxxxx.com) > host: [internal-smtp.xxxxxx.com](http://internal-smtp.xxxxxx.com) > subtype: html > to: ‘[dbs…@xxxxxx.com](mailto:dbs...@xxxxxx.com)’ > subject: test > body: > > How do I tell ansible to output in a email format like the way I see it from the debug output on my screen? The console is using a fixed width font, while your mail client is not. You need to format the email body in a way that your mail client uses a fixed width font to display it. This is not something this list is for, but as a start wrap the output in ``` tags instead of ### . Google for email formatting and html to tweak things further. ``` ---
**Author:** ![dbs34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dbs34](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dbs34)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mail-multi-line-format/38153/3 "2023-06-23T17:57:37Z")
ok thank you Dick, I follow you. Anyway, this is what I came up with and it worked like a charm.