Fix to sed (what's a text file?)
Kay Dekker
kay at warwick.UUCP
Mon Oct 21 05:00:32 AEST 1985
In article <2235 at brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
>Many UNIX text-file utilities will discard a (necessarily final)
>text line that does not end in a newline. Quite simply, such a
>file is not a proper UNIX text file.
Who says? Where's the definition of a 'proper' UNIX text file?
Maybe the "many UNIX text-file utilities" could do with fixing: discarding
lines that don't end in a newline seems bogus to me.
Kay.
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