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Old 05-07-2008
script doesn´t read last line
hi, i have a file with 5 lines, like this:

068|3|20080331|P|21090|5|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
068|3|20080331|P| |6|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
068|3|20080331|P|21040|7|0|233|105|161|6157|6656|101
068|3|20080331|P| |T|188842|33996|14543|3226|7193|247800|298
068|3|20080331|T| |T|322468|43073|24411|12916|8654|411522|1779
~
~
~

there is not space after the last value of the last line (1779 in dark red)
the probles is what if i do "wc -l my_file" i have 4 lines, but there are 5 lines,
idem, if i copy the file to another using a script in ksh doesn´t copy the last line, only copy to the new file 4 lines
i believe the problem is because there is not space after the last value of the last line, or because there is not a "\n"

what can i do???
please, help me
thanks
# 2  
Old 05-07-2008
please paste tail -1 your.file |od -cx

and or run set list in vi and paste. I wonder if you have some non-printable characters messing it up.
# 3  
Old 05-08-2008
put set -x in your script run it and put the output here.
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