ssh-copy-id no newline bug

Stephen Harris lists at spuddy.org
Mon Mar 21 06:51:23 AEDT 2016


On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 07:30:01PM +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
> 
> On 20 Mar 2016, at 19:15, Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone going to be upset by the resulting blank lines being added by
> > ssh-copy-id when the file was not missing a terminating newline?
> 
> Well it would be at least mildly annoying my previously nice looking file
> now has a pile of blank lines in just because someone didn't know
> how to use their editor ...

You can be pretty sure it'd end up causing a bug report as well
("ssh-copy-id introduces blank lines into good files").

-- 

rgds
Stephen


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