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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check if the file DOES NOT have EOF Post 302076263 by mgerdts on Saturday 10th of June 2006 10:06:10 PM
Old 06-10-2006
You can get the octal value of the last character of a file with...

Code:
#! /bin/sh

file=$1

size=`ls -l $file | awk '{print $5}'`
dd if=$file bs=1 skip=`expr $size - 1` count=1 2>/dev/null \
        | od -b | awk '{print $2; exit 0}'

This should work in Bourne Shell, Korn Shell, bash, or anything else that claims to be somewhat compatible with Bourne shell.
 

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