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Check if last char in a line is '.' and if not, insert it

Hi all,

I've searched for this but couldn't seem to find the answer I'm looking for. I have a text file that looks like this:

sgea0447 Earnings followed the same path. earnings followed the same path
sgea0448 Economic growth slowed further. economic growth slowed further
sgea0449 Emergency vehicles flash red or red blue. emergency vehicles flash red or red blue.
sgea0450 Encourage someone who is in low spirits. encourage someone who is in low spirits,
sgea0451 Enter the corporate raider. enter the corporate raider,
sgea0452 Entertaining leaves you feeling relaxed. entertaining leaves you feeling relaxed
sgea0453 Especially by your wife. especially by your wife,

As you can see, the last character of each line either already has a period, or it has commas, or it just has no punctuation. What I want is for all the lines to have a period at the end, should look like this:

sgea0447 Earnings followed the same path. earnings followed the same path.
sgea0448 Economic growth slowed further. economic growth slowed further.
sgea0449 Emergency vehicles flash red or red blue. emergency vehicles flash red or red blue.
sgea0450 Encourage someone who is in low spirits. encourage someone who is in low spirits.
sgea0451 Enter the corporate raider. enter the corporate raider.
sgea0452 Entertaining leaves you feeling relaxed. entertaining leaves you feeling relaxed.
sgea0453 Especially by your wife. especially by your wife.

Can anyone help??

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       gffindxmlattr [ -d depth ] [ -F delim ] [ XPath | -f XPath-file ] path

DESCRIPTION

       gffindxmlattr  finds  XML  extended  attributes by a specified XPath expression, and displays path names and the corresponding XML extended
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       When a directory is specified, files or directories within the depth are recursively searched.  When 0 is  specified  for  the  depth,  the
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       -f XPath-file
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