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

Dickon Hood sclug at splurge.fluff.org
Mon Jul 18 13:52:33 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 14:35:51 +0100, Sapan Ganguly wrote:
: Thanks for your reply but I tried that too and it still becomes one
: long line in the new file.

for i in *.csv; do tail -1 $i && echo; done | sed -e '/^$/d'

OK, OK, not pretty...

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