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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers a strange message when executing the sort command Post 302115500 by zazzybob on Wednesday 25th of April 2007 07:07:40 AM
Old 04-25-2007
It's doing exactly what it says - it's adding a newline to the end of your input file as one isn't there, e.g.
Code:
$ echo -n "foo" | sort
sort: warning: missing NEWLINE added at EOF
foo
$ echo "foo" | sort
foo

You can suppress this benign message by redirecting STDERR to /dev/null, or by appending a newline to your input file, e.g.:
Code:
$ ( gzip -dc ./file.gz; echo ) | sort
-or-
$ gzip -dc ./file.gz | sort 2>/dev/null

You can verify that the last line of your input file doesn't contain a newline with:
Code:
$ gzip -dc ./file.gz | tail -1 | od -c

Cheers,
ZB
 

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nl2br - Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

SYNOPSIS
string nl2br (string $string, [bool $is_xhtml = true]) DESCRIPTION
Returns $string with '<br />' or '<br>' inserted before all newlines ( , , and ). PARAMETERS
o $string - The input string. o $is_xhtml - Whether to use XHTML compatible line breaks or not. RETURN VALUES
Returns the altered string. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Using nl2br(3) <?php echo nl2br("foo isn't bar"); ?> The above example will output: foo isn't<br /> bar Example #2 Generating valid HTML markup using the $is_xhtml parameter <?php echo nl2br("Welcome This is my HTML document", false); ?> The above example will output: Welcome<br> This is my HTML document Example #3 Various newline separators <?php $string = "This is a string "; echo nl2br($string); ?> The above example will output: This<br /> is<br /> a<br /> string<br /> CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | Added the optional $is_xhtml parameter. Before | | | this version '<br />' was always inserted. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
htmlspecialchars(3), htmlentities(3), wordwrap(3), str_replace(3). PHP Documentation Group NL2BR(3)
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