How to insert EOL?


 
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Old 04-01-2013
How to insert EOL?

How can I insert End of line (EOL) in Unix to file. Thanks
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Old 04-01-2013
  1. Open the file in some editor
  2. go to the last character of the file, press enter Smilie
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Old 04-01-2013
Code:
echo "" >> filename

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Old 04-02-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
echo "" >> filename



did not work !
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Old 04-02-2013
What is your file contents? Did you get any error message?

Show us more detail.
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Old 04-02-2013
As far as I know EOL is a newline or a line break to represent end of a line of text.

So you can append it simply by running:
Code:
printf "\n" >> filename

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