POLL: should the last line end with LF?

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Fri Apr 20 16:53:32 UTC 2007


deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
 > I've set up a poll here for this here:

The question doesn't make sense.  A file that doesn't end
with a newline character is not a legal UNIX text file.
The standard UNIX text editors (ed, vi) don't even let
you create files that don't end with a newline character.

Best regards
   Oliver

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