Paul Eggert wrote:
James Simmons, President & CEO wrote:
cat file1.txt file2.txt >>output.txt
file1.txt contains a single line containing IP addresses.
file2.txt contains a single line with more IP addresses.
output.txt SHOULD contain a single line
If the input contains two lines, the output should too. Sorry, I
don't see a bug here.
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If he is using an editor like Vim,
it will not show you the last linefeeds in the file because
it always inserts them automatically unless you are in binary mode.
I had a similar problem with vim force inserting an LF on a file update,
just to "help me". The problem comes when you want to concatenate
text fields, where neither are terminated by an LF. I think that may be
what the OP is expecting, not knowing that the problem may be in their text
editor that won't inhibit LF@EOF in text mode even though it has a flag
for it.
