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Old 03-15-2013
Adding end of line character in the last record
Need to add end of line character to last record in a fixed width file.

When i take the record length of each line, for all the records it gives example like 200 except the last line as 199.

Due to this my other script fails.

Please help me on this.
# 2  
Old 03-15-2013
I think this will add newline to end of last line:
Code:
sed "$ s/$/\n/" infile > outfile

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Old 03-15-2013
Do you mean the last line has no trailing newline? In that case you may or may not be able to use sed some can, but some cannot handle that. Try
Code:
printf "\n" >> file

--
@hanson44: most seds cannot handle \n in the replacement part of the substitute command (and they will write a literal "n")
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Old 03-15-2013
sed does read the last line, even if no EOL, at least with GNU sed.
I guess I'm used to GNU sed or other modern version of sed.
But you have a good point. And your solution is 100% better.
Code:
$ echo -n x > temp.x
$ cat temp.x
x$sed "$ s/$/\n/" temp.x
x
$

# 5  
Old 03-15-2013
Adding end of line character in the last record
Thanks for both. Its is workinf fine.
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