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Re: sh read on files missing the final newline



> It depends on what you consider correct, surely.
Sure.

Sorry, I meant
> Silently act as if the missing newline were there?

The problem came up when a colleague edited a file with emacs, which seems 
to allow a non-terminated final line, and the shell script interpreting 
that file ignored that line, which lead to interesting results and was quite 
hard to spot.


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