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Old 10-12-2008
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Originally Posted by JamesByars View Post
I have a file with no eof,

In Unix, there is no such thing as EOF. Do you mean it is missing a final newline?
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and I want to change it, I know I can do awk 1 file > file2, but I would like to know what awk 1 means?

1 is a pattern that is always true. In the absence of an action ( {...} ), awk prints the line.