From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Cast <jonathanccast@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:32:25 -0600
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Subject: Re: [9fans] trailing newline in awk
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On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:15 +0100, dexen deVries wrote:
> hi list,
>
> can't wrap my head around this: in an awk script, how to take some action if a
> file lacks last trailing Line Feed?
>
> i want to modify files with contents like:
> text LF
> text LF
> text
>
> and leave undisturbed files with content like:
> text LF
> text LF
> text LF

If this is all you're trying to do,

    awk 1 file

works, no?

jcc