I notice that the output of stat from coreutils-5.1.2 produces a blank
line (marked by ---> below) at the end of its report:
203 eilat::coreutils-5.1.2.p1> /usr/local/bin/stat /bin/true
File: `/bin/true'
Size: 312 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 65536 regular file
Device: eeh/238d Inode: 380 Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ sys)
Access: 2003-12-09 09:02:56.572619600 -0700
Modify: 1999-11-04 12:07:38.887783200 -0700
Change: 1999-11-04 12:07:38.888253600 -0700
--->
204 eilat::coreutils-5.1.2.p1>
Spurious empty trailing lines are atypical of GNU and Unix software,
so perhaps the empty line should be eliminated.
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