Re: sed : * final newline

[Karl Berry]

    OK.  I'd still prefer to append newline at the no matter what the input
    looked like, ie. the Solaris way.
    I think this is the cleanest way---it has only one drawback, which can be
    easily expressed: ``if the input file doesn't end with newline, a newline
    will be appended.

Isn't that a fairly significant drawback?  Just off the cuff, I don't
expect tools to alter my input files unless I ask them to.