Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> writes:

> I don't think any shell implementation would discard such a
> line. I don't know of any that does.

I do know of cases where other utilities will not see the last line if
it's not terminated by a '\n'. I think I had problems with sed and/or
grep a decade ago (was probably an old Solaris system).

I remember it because I had to write a work-around for it.


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