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

[Sapan Ganguly]

Thanks for your reply but I tried that too and it still becomes one
long line in the new file.

On 7/18/05, Dickon Hood <sclug at splurge.fluff.org> wrote:
> 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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