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Add missing trailing newline to all files in a git repo #codesnippet

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Insert missing newlines into all files in git repo

git ls-files -z | while IFS= read -rd '' f; do if file --brief --mime-encoding "$f" | grep -qv binary; then tail -c1 < "$f" | read -r _ || echo >> "$f"; fi; done

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In this example, .erb, files only:

git ls-files '**/*.erb' -z | while IFS= read -rd '' f; do if file --brief --mime-encoding "$f" | grep -qv binary; then tail -c1 < "$f" | read -r _ || echo >> "$f"; fi; done

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