RE: Shell script - is this expected behaviour?

[Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix dot com>]

Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> From: Eric Blake 
> > 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.

I don't have the time to experiment at the moment, but I'm pretty sure
that some of the standard tools append a line terminator if it's not
already on the last line of their input.  sed or awk or gawk, maybe?
Anyway, if you can stumble on such a program, it can save you having
to write and maintain and distribute a filter to all your
environments.

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Tim McDaniel

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