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Unix text files are defined by POSIX as files containing characters organized into lines, where lines end with a line feed character. Additionally, POSIX defines printable files as text files whose characters are printable, spaces, or backspaces according to regional rules, excluding non-printable control characters.

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Unix text files are defined by POSIX as files containing characters organized into lines, where lines end with a line feed character. Additionally, POSIX defines printable files as text files whose characters are printable, spaces, or backspaces according to regional rules, excluding non-printable control characters.

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Unix text files

On Unix-like operating systems text files format is precisely described: POSIX defines a text file
as a file that contains characters organized into zero or more lines,[4] where lines are sequences of
zero or more non-newline characters plus a terminating newline character,[5] normally LF.
Additionally, POSIX defines a printable file as a text file whose characters are printable or
space or backspace according to regional rules. This excludes control characters, which are not
printable.[6]

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