What's the Point in Adding a New Line to the End of a File? (Unix)
Fleeting- External reference: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18743/whats-the-point-in-adding-a-new-line-to-the-end-of-a-file
It’s not about adding an extra newline at the end of a file, it’s about not removing the newline that should be there.
A text file, under unix, consists of a series of lines, each of which ends with a newline character (\n). A file that is not empty and does not end with a newline is therefore not a text file.