Automatically add newline at end of curl response body

Question

If the HTTP response body for a curl request doesn\'t contain a trailing newline, I end up with this really annoying condition where the shell prompt is in the middle of the

Answer 1

Use this:

curl jsonip.com; echo 

If you need grouping to feed a pipe :

{ curl jsonip.com; echo; } | tee new_file_with_newline

OUTPUT

{"ip":"x.x.x.x","about":"/about"}

This is that simple ;)

(and not limited to curl command but all commands that not finish with a newline)