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I’ve had some tools drop the last incomplete line on some OSes. For example: $ printf 'foo\nbar\nbaz' | sed 's/x/y/' foo bar $ _ I don’t recall which systems exactly these were, but I know ...
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mirabilos
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2024-05-07T20:40:24Z (7 months ago)
I’ve had some tools drop the last incomplete line on some OSes.
For example:
$ printf 'foo\nbar\nbaz' | sed 's/x/y/'
foo
bar
$ _
I don’t recall which systems exactly these were, but I know I ran into it multiple times over the years, and POSIX allows this (I checked, it’s the application’s/user’s duty to provide the final newline).