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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk not working due to missing new line character at last line of file Post 302314225 by TonyFullerMalv on Thursday 7th of May 2009 07:03:38 PM
Old 05-07-2009
Code:
echo "" >> filename

Will add a new line character to the end of the file.

Code:
$ echo fred > fred
$ od -bc fred
0000000 146 162 145 144 012
          f   r   e   d  \n
0000005
$ echo "" >> fred
$ od -bc fred
0000000 146 162 145 144 012 012
          f   r   e   d  \n  \n
0000006
$

 

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