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Subject: Re: Shell script - is this expected behaviour?
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:50:45 +0100
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Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/29/2011 02:00 AM, Gary wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Not cygwin specific.

Okay, thanks. That's what I was wondering.

>> If it's expected behaviour, what's the workaround?
>
> Never feed 'read' unterminated input.  Always end your text files with a
> newline.

Yeah, sadly the input file isn't under my control. I ended up just
stuffing a newline on the end regardless. I would read the file first to
find out if it was necessary, but...

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