Reading input files by line using read command in shell scripting skips last line

Question

I usually use the read command to read an input file to the shell script line by line. An example code such as the one below yields a wrong result if a new line isn\'t inser

Answer 1

Below code with Redirected "while-read" loop works fine for me

while read LINE
do
      let count++
      echo "$count $LINE"

done < $FILENAME

echo -e "\nTotal $count Lines read"