\begin{tikzpicture}
       \begin{axis}[
               ybar interval,
               title={endlinechar: \the\endlinechar~(should be 13)}
       ]
       % a data file containing 8000 normally distributed
       % random numbers of mean 0 and variance 1
       \addplot+[hist={data=x}] file {pgfplots.randn.dat};
       \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}