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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.bugs
Subject: Re: Fix to sed
Message-ID: <2235@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 21:52:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 21:52:28 1985
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> There is a bug in sed:  when processing files which do not end with a newline
> character, the last line is discarded.

Many UNIX text-file utilities will discard a (necessarily final)
text line that does not end in a newline.  Quite simply, such a
file is not a proper UNIX text file.