[TUHS] non-Posix input files

[Chet Ramey via TUHS]

On 3/30/25 12:12 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
> 
> Re: newlines at the end of files.
> 
> I hesitate to ask this in such exalted company, but isn’t it a question of whether the newline is (or should be) a line terminator, or a statement separator?

I think that's part of the difference between input files (e.g., to `sort')
and script files (the part of the `awk' specification I quoted earlier)
and the distinction that POSIX makes between them, where applicable.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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