trailing blank line in a text file
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Jul 21 03:04:58 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 19:43, Olga wrote:
> >
> > Have you used a hex editor to really see what the file contains?
> >
> > od -ha filename
> >
> > will dump the contents of the file in hex with the ascii.
> >
> > You can check the file before editing and after to really see what the
> > contents are.
> >
> > --
> > Scot L. Harris
> > webid at cfl.rr.com
> >
> I just ran the command you mentioned. In the file where I get an empty
> line, I get the following after the last record: nl nul
> Here's the end of that file:
> 0002420 6148 0a6d 6957 6c6c 6169 206d 6148 7272
> H a m nl W i l l i a m sp H a r r
> 0002440 7369 6e6f 000a
> i s o n nl nul
> 0002445
>
>
> But in the file where there's no trailing blank line (the one that I
> edited with mc) at the end I get nothing (here's the end of the output)
> 0000120 676c 0a61 6550 6574 0a72 6553 6e61 530a
> l g a nl P e t e r nl S e a n nl S
> 0000140 6574 6576
> t e v e
> 0000144
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isn't the 0A the line feed character as we have been discussing? Isn't
this exactly the expected behavior?
Craig
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