Source files are text files. echo “new line” >> textfile cat <textfiles> If you and your toolchain don’t see them as text files and never will, and you ne

Source files are text files. echo “new line” >> textfile cat <textfiles> If you and your toolchain don’t see them as text files and never will, and you never use your editor to edit other text files (e.g. /etc/…), you’re probably ok without a newline at eof.