email from bash script

Question

#!/bin/bash
MESSAGE="Line one. /n"

MESSAGE="$MESSAGE Line two. /n"
MESSAGE="$MESSAGE Line three."

echo $MESSAGE | mail -s "test" "[email protected]"

Is that how I should get each line, on its own line?

Answer 1

Use a heredoc.

mail -s "test" "[email protected]" << END_MAIL
Line one.
Line two.
Line three.
END_MAIL

Answer 2

Change:

echo $MESSAGE | mail -s "test" "[email protected]"

To:

echo -e $MESSAGE | mail -s "test" "[email protected]"