Re: [help-recutils] extra newline created when using recsel and recfmt?

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Hi.
    
    when I use the following command:
    
    > recsel -e "Blah = '"blah"'" tmp.rec | recfmt -f tmp.tmpl
    
    on tmp.rec:
    > %rec: one
    > 
    > Blah: blah
    
    and tmp.tmpl:
    > Line one
    > 
    > And the last line
    
    I get an output file with 4 lines instead of 3:

Yes, this is a bug.  I just pushed a patch fixing this.  Thank you for
reporting :)

As a workaround you can apply the following patch to the 1.5 source
code.

diff --git a/utils/recfmt.c b/utils/recfmt.c
index b25110c..0a03416 100644
--- a/utils/recfmt.c
+++ b/utils/recfmt.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  */
 
-/* Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012 Jose E. Marchesi */
+/* Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Jose E. Marchesi */
 
 /* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ recfmt_process_db (rec_db_t db, char *template)
           result = recfmt_apply_template (record, template);
           if (result && (*result != '\0'))
             {
-              puts (result);
+              printf ("%s", result);
               free (result);
             }
         }