RE: Shell script - is this expected behaviour?

["Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at acs-inc dot com>]

From: Eric Blake [mailto:eblake@redhat.com] 
Subject: Re: Shell script - is this expected behaviour?

> On 11/29/2011 02:00 AM, Gary wrote:
> > If I have a shell script which reads a file which does not have an
end
> > of line character at the end if it's only line, it does not read
> > anything.

<snip>

> Never feed 'read' unterminated input.  Always end your text files with
a
> newline.

When I can't control the contents of the input file, I pipe it through
a filter program I wrote that adds a final newline where the last
character of a stream is not a newline.
--Ken Nellis

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