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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trouble reading [noeol] file Post 302412150 by alister on Monday 12th of April 2010 01:32:09 AM
Old 04-12-2010
The "while read" probably read the final line just fine, but it also hit the end of file since there was no newline at the end of it, thereby exiting the loop.

Code:
$ printf 'a\nb' > test1.txt
$ od -cb test1.txt 
0000000    a  \n   b                                                    
          141 012 142                                                    
0000003
$ while read line; do echo IN WHILE: $line; done < test1.txt ; echo AFTER WHILE: $line
IN WHILE: a
AFTER WHILE: b

You could try the following to ensure that the loop body executes if the final "line" isn't newline terminated:
Code:
$ while read line || [ "$line" ]; do echo $line; done < test1.txt
a
b

Regards,
Alister

Last edited by alister; 04-12-2010 at 02:40 AM..
 

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