Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] last line does not end with newline
Date: Tuesday, 29 Sep 2020, 20:28:13

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Hi, for the HERE documents
    >  "If the last line read does not end with a newline, one is
    >   appended" I am not sure how to test that.
    >
    > Since we are doing:
    > a\n
    > b\n
    > c\n
    > WORD
    >
    > I am not sure how to remove the '\n' on the second last line

Try

  % echo -n 'a << b\nc\na' | parsley

--Stan-