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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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