Re: sh read on files missing the final newline

[Martin Neitzel <neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost>]

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

EAMCS:   Eighty Modes And Continuing Surprises

	(setq-default require-final-newline t)

in .emacs to the rescue, IIRC.   (I eventually went back to straight vi(1).)

							Martin