Re: why does "sort" produce an extra trailing newline?

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:33:20 -0500, Rahul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Has anybody noticed that sort produces an extra trailing newline? Or is it

From "info sort"

" GNU `sort' (as specified for all GNU utilities) has no limit on
input line length or restrictions on bytes allowed within lines. In
addition, if the final byte of an input file is not a newline, GNU
`sort' silently supplies one. A line's trailing newline is not part of
the line for comparison purposes."

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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