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From: Tim McDaniel
Subject: RE: Shell script - is this expected behaviour?

>I don't have the time to experiment at the moment, but I'm pretty sure
>that some of the standard tools append a line terminator if it's not
>already on the last line of their input.  sed or awk or gawk, maybe?
>Anyway, if you can stumble on such a program, it can save you having
>to write and maintain and distribute a filter to all your
>environments.

FWIW, "grep ^" seems to do the trick.
--Ken Nellis

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