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Subject: Shell script - is this expected behaviour?
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:00:46 +0100
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If I have a shell script which reads a file which does not have an end
of line character at the end if it's only line, it does not read
anything.

For example:
,----
| #!/bin/sh
| 
| fileName="test.xml"
| retVal="Z"
| 
| exec 10<&0
| exec < $fileName
| while read configLine
| do
|     retVal="A"
| done
| exec 0<&10 10<&-
| 
| echo $retVal
| 
| exit 0
`----

If it's expected behaviour, what's the workaround?

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