ISO/IEC 9899:2011 §7.21.2 Streams

A text stream is an ordered sequence of characters composed into lines,each line
consisting of zero or more characters plus a terminating new-line character. Whether the
last line requires a terminating new-line character is implementation-defined. Characters
may have to be added,altered,or deleted on input and output to conform to differing
conventions for representing text in the host environment. Thus,there need not be a one-to-
one correspondence between the characters in a stream and those in the external
representation. Data read in from a text stream will necessarily compare equal to the data
that were earlier written out to that stream only if: the data consist only of printing
characters and the control characters horizontal tab and new-line; no new-line character is
immediately preceded by space characters; and the last character is a new-line character.
Whether space characters that are written out immediately before a new-line character
appear when read in is implementation-defined.

我不会有意外的在文件结束时导致麻烦，导致麻烦在bash(或任何Unix shell)，但这似乎是可重复性的问题($是这个输出中的提示)：

$ echo xxx\\c
xxx$ { echo abc; echo def; echo ghi; echo xxx\\c; } > y
$ cat y
abc
def
ghi
xxx$
$ while read line; do echo $line; done < y
abc
def
ghi
$ bash -c 'while read line; do echo $line; done < y'
abc
def
ghi
$ ksh -c 'while read line; do echo $line; done < y'
abc
def
ghi
$ zsh -c 'while read line; do echo $line; done < y'
abc
def
ghi
$ for line in $(<y); do echo $line; done      # Preferred notation in bash
abc
def
ghi
xxx
$ for line in $(cat y); do echo $line; done   # UUOC Award pending
abc
def
ghi
xxx
$

它也不限于bash – Korn shell(ksh)和zsh行为也像这样。我住，我学习;感谢提出这个问题。

如上面的代码所示，cat命令读取整个文件。 cat $ DATAFILE技术中的for行收集所有输出，并用一个空格替换空格的任意序列(我推断文件中的每一行都不包含空格)。

在Mac OS X 10.7.5上测试。

POSIX是什么意思？

POSIX read命令规范说：

The read utility shall read a single line from standard input.

By default,unless the -r option is specified,<backslash> shall act as an escape character. An unescaped <backslash> shall preserve the literal value of the following character,with the exception of a <newline>. If a <newline> follows the <backslash>,the read utility shall interpret this as line continuation. The <backslash> and <newline> shall be removed before splitting the input into fields. All other unescaped <backslash> characters shall be removed after splitting the input into fields.

If standard input is a terminal device and the invoking shell is interactive,read shall prompt for a continuation line when it reads an input line ending with a <backslash> <newline>,unless the -r option is specified.

The terminating <newline> (if any) shall be removed from the input and the results shall be split into fields as in the shell for the results of parameter expansion (see Field Splitting); […]

注意'(如果有)'(强调在报价中添加)！在我看来，如果没有换行符，它应该仍然读结果。另一方面，它也说：

STDIN

The standard input shall be a text file.

然后你回到关于一个不以换行符结尾的文件是否是一个文本文件的争论。

但是，同一页文件的理由：

Although the standard input is required to be a text file,and therefore will always end with a <newline> (unless it is an empty file),the processing of continuation lines when the -r option is not used can result in the input not ending with a <newline>. This occurs if the last line of the input file ends with a <backslash> <newline>. It is for this reason that “if any” is used in “The terminating <newline> (if any) shall be removed from the input” in the description. It is not a relaxation of the requirement for standard input to be a text file.

这个理由必须意味着文本文件应该以换行符结束。

POSIX文本文件定义是：

07001 Text File

A file that contains characters organized into zero or more lines. The lines do not contain NUL characters and none can exceed {LINE_MAX} bytes in length,including the <newline> character. Although POSIX.1-2008 does not distinguish between text files and binary files (see the ISO C standard),many utilities only produce predictable or meaningful output when operating on text files. The standard utilities that have such restrictions always specify “text files” in their STDIN or INPUT FILES sections.

这没有规定’end with a< newline>‘直接，但遵循C标准。

解决了“无终端换行”的问题

注Gordon Davisson的answer.一个简单的测试表明，他的观察是准确的：

$ while read line; do echo $line; done < y; echo $line
abc
def
ghi
xxx
$

因此，他的技术：

while read line || [ -n "$line" ]; do echo $line; done < y

要么：

cat y | while read line || [ -n "$line" ]; do echo $line; done

将工作的文件没有换行结束(至少在我的机器上)。

我仍然惊讶地发现，shell删除了最后一个段(它不能被称为一行，因为它不以换行结束)的输入，但在POSIX可能有足够的理由这样做。显然，最好确保你的文本文件真的是以换行符结尾的文本文件。