On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 08:30:33PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >How about something like: > > if [ "$(sed -n '${s/.*//;p}' ~/.ssh/authorized_keys | wc -l)" = 0 ]; then > echo >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys > fi > >I feel like there must be a neater but still portable way to do this, Maybe if [ ! -z `tail -c 1 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys` ] ; then Mike Stone