30 Mar
2025
30 Mar
'25
4:12 p.m.
Re: newlines at the end of files.
I hesitate to ask this in such exalted company, but isn’t it a question of whether the
newline is (or should be) a line terminator, or a statement separator?
-Steve
30 Mar
30 Mar
9:41 p.m.
New subject: non-Posix input files
On 3/30/25 12:12 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
Re: newlines at the end of files.
I hesitate to ask this in such exalted company, but isn’t it a question of whether the
newline is (or should be) a line terminator, or a statement separator?
I think that's part of the difference between input files (e.g., to `sort')
and script files (the part of the `awk' specification I quoted earlier)
and the distinction that POSIX makes between them, where applicable.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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