Re: Trailing LFs in shell scripts
Re: Trailing LFs in shell scripts
- Subject: Re: Trailing LFs in shell scripts
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:27:59 -0800
On Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002, at 19:15 US/Pacific, John W Baxter wrote:
Not tacking a trailing newline onto the last "line" in a file is a
great way to have that line missed. (In a far wider context than old
Perl versions ;-))
Yeah, imagine if we had to end all our emails or scripts with a period
on a line by itself followed by a newline. Same ol' tradeoff
though--kinda difficult for a daemon-like process to tell when it's
received meaningful input unless there is some delimiter convention.
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Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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