Missing newline character?

Question

I\'ve copied a file from HDFS into my local file system (all on RH linux). However, after the copy, if I cat the file, I see the following:

[me@ac12         


        

Answer 1

You can use this sed to add a newline after last line:

sed -i.bak $'$s/$/\\n/' file_copy

EDIT:

Or else use (thanks to @JonathanLeffler):

echo '' >> file_copy