Email attachment contents misaligned

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

I am using mail -s in my shell script to write contents of logfile as the content of my email, and attaching the error_log.txt along with it.
When the email gets sent out, the contents of the attachment error_log.txt is misaligned.

(cat $logfile ;uuencode $error_log.txt error_log.txt ) | mail -s "Update XXX" email@yahoo.com

I tried mutt and see the same issue. Can someone help me how the attachment can be sent out without the contents being misaligned?

Thanks in advance.

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Misaligned in what way?

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If the contents of the file error_log.txt is as below:
This is test line 1
This is test line 2
This is test line 3
This is test line 4
This is test line 5
This is test line 6
This is test line 7
This is test line 8
This is test line 9
This is test line 10

When the file is sent out as an attachment, the file looks something like
This is test line 1 This is test line 2 This is test line 3 This is
test line 4 This is test line 5 This is test line 6 This is test
line 7 This is test line 8 This is test line 9 This is test line 10

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Windows expects lines to end with \r\n. Since the logfile is encoded, the mere act of emailing it doesn't fix this. You can add carriage returns to a file with

sed 's/$/\r/' < inputfile > outputfile
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Thank you for the response. I was wondering if there is any option in unix which doest that automatically.
I think I will need to make changed while creating the logfile itself. This is helpful.