1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/hexdump_xxd.c b/util-linux/hexdump_xxd.c
index cc34ea649..be4b4f354 100644
--- a/util-linux/hexdump_xxd.c
+++ b/util-linux/hexdump_xxd.c
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ int xxd_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                 }
                 // for -g3, this results in B B BS B B BS... B = "xxxxxx xxxxxx .....xx"
                 // todo: can be more clever and use
-                // one "cols-1/B" format instead of many "B B B..." formats
+                // one 'bytes-1/1 "%02x"' format instead of many "B B B..." formats
                 //bb_error_msg("ADDED:'%s'", bigbuf);
                 bb_dump_add(dumper, bigbuf);
                 free(bigbuf);
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ int xxd_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
         if (!(opt & OPT_p)) {
                 sprintf(buf, "\"  \"%u/1 \"%%_p\"\"\n\"", cols); // "  ASCII\n"
                 bb_dump_add(dumper, buf);
+        } else {
+                bb_dump_add(dumper, "\"\n\"");
         }
 
         return bb_dump_dump(dumper, argv);