On 08/08/2014 06:52 AM, James Simmons, President & CEO wrote:
Each file has 1 line with no newline. concatenation should NOT have a newline. That is the point of concatenation.
As you referred to Cygwin - here's the case on that platform: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 xxxxxxxx 1.7.31(0.272/5/3) 2014-07-25 11:26 x86_64 Cygwin $ $ cat --version | sed 1q cat (GNU coreutils) 8.15 $ printf 1234 > file1 $ printf 5678 > file2 $ cat file1 file2 > file12 $ file file1 file2 file12 file1: ASCII text, with no line terminators file2: ASCII text, with no line terminators file12: ASCII text, with no line terminators $ od -An -tx1z file12 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 >12345678< I don't see a bug here either. Have a nice day, Berny
