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SED.EXE Bug?

Hi all,
when using sed to replace a piece of text multiple times in a file something weird happens.If there is no carriage return after the last line in the file it deletes the line. Anyone know why ?

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sed -e "s/System.out.println/\/\/Commented out by us System.out.println/g" d:\sed\source.txt

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10-16-2001

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can u tell what OS u r working on?

it seems like MSDOS or Windows to me!

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unix. Although I have seen the same thing happeneing on windows Sed.exe

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Sed works on lines. It always ignores a partial line at the end of the file. This is documented in the first paragraph of the description on the sed man page.

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ok, that makes sense. Annoying, but its makes sense

Could you recommend a stream editor that doesn't do this?
I've got a client localising deployment property files with sed.
This led to an issue where the last line was being stripped and the system started throwing a fit.

Thanks for your help
Paul.

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Would it be feasable to do something like this?:

Code:

echo "\012" >> file ; sed [...]

That should place a < LF > at the end of a file before sed gets to it...

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well pardon me if i were wrong!

I was trying to reproduce the same, but i did not find such a problem, eventhough i have encountered the same with some other compilers.

can anyone tell me how to chech whether there is end of line character in each line in a file?

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