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Old 06-19-2008
Append newline at the file end

Hi All,

Is there any way to append a newline character at the end of a file(coma-separated file), through shell script?

I need to check whether newline character exists at the end of a file, if it does not then append it.

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Krishna
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Old 06-19-2008
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