[916] in athena10
tcsh silently ignores the end of a script with no trailing newline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Thu Jan 22 19:34:53 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:33:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
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balanced-tree:/tmp> printf 'echo hi\n' > file1
balanced-tree:/tmp> printf 'echo hi' > file2
balanced-tree:/tmp> tcsh file1
hi
balanced-tree:/tmp> tcsh file2
This has caused confusion for users on a system with tcsh as the default
shell, when they attempt to edit their dotfiles using editors that do not
add a trailing newline by default.
Anders
