[sclug] Redirecting Tail to a file preserving end of lines

[Dickon Hood]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 14:18:35 +0100, Sapan Ganguly wrote:
: Hello, how are you all?

: I've been scratching my head over this one for the past hour or two,
: how do I take the last line of a bunch of files and put them into a
: new file?  This is what I have been trying -

: # tail --lines=1 --silent *.csv >> newfile

: For some reason the end of lines aren't preserved, newfile ends up
: being one really long line.

: I've tried a few other ways but I get the same result.

: Any ideas?

for i in *.csv; do tail -1 $i; done > newfile

Works for me.

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