diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
index 65b0910..136334e 100644
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ b/src/cli.rs
@@ -157,13 +157,23 @@ fn run_inner(mut cli: Cli) -> Result<ExitCode> {
     // just prints "loading rules: loading custom rules: ...".
     let rules = load_rules(cli.config.as_deref())?;
     let scanner = Scanner::new(&rules).context("compiling rule patterns")?;
-    let mut matches = scanner
-        .scan_files(cli.files.iter().map(PathBuf::as_path))
-        .context("scanning files")?;
-    matches = filter_by_severity(matches, min_severity, &rules);
+    let mut report = scanner.scan_files(cli.files.iter().map(PathBuf::as_path));
+    // One bad file must not hide the others' results. The run only aborts when
+    // nothing at all could be read, and any unreadable file still exits 1.
+    let read_failed = !report.failures.is_empty();
+    if report.readable.is_empty() && read_failed {
+        let first = report.failures.swap_remove(0);
+        return Err(anyhow::Error::new(first).context("scanning files"));
+    }
+    for failure in &report.failures {
+        eprintln!("Error: {}", error_chain(failure));
+    }
+    cli.files = report.readable;
+    let matches = filter_by_severity(report.matches, min_severity, &rules);
 
     if cli.write || cli.output.is_some() {
-        return run_fix(&cli, &matches, &rules);
+        let code = run_fix(&cli, &matches, &rules)?;
+        return Ok(if read_failed { ExitCode::from(1) } else { code });
     }
 
     let stdout = std::io::stdout();
@@ -174,7 +184,7 @@ fn run_inner(mut cli: Cli) -> Result<ExitCode> {
         "json" => formatter.json(&matches)?,
         _ => formatter.text(&matches)?,
     }
-    if has_errors(&matches, &rules) {
+    if read_failed || has_errors(&matches, &rules) {
         return Ok(ExitCode::from(1));
     }
     Ok(ExitCode::SUCCESS)
@@ -238,7 +248,7 @@ fn run_fix(cli: &Cli, matches: &[MatchHit], rules: &RuleSet) -> Result<ExitCode>
             }
             continue;
         }
-        write_output(&out_path, &outcome.content)
+        write_output(&out_path, &outcome.content, input)
             .with_context(|| format!("writing {}", out_path.display()))?;
         match (outcome.fixed_count, outcome.unfixed_count) {
             (f, u) if f > 0 && u > 0 => println!(
@@ -309,13 +319,28 @@ fn same_file(input: &Path, out: &Path) -> bool {
     }
 }
 
-fn write_output(path: &Path, content: &str) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+/// Write `content` to `path`, giving it the permission bits of `mode_from`
+/// (the input script) so `-o` keeps a script executable the way `-w` does.
+fn write_output(path: &Path, content: &str, mode_from: &Path) -> std::io::Result<()> {
     if let Some(parent) = path.parent()
         && !parent.as_os_str().is_empty()
     {
         std::fs::create_dir_all(parent)?;
     }
-    std::fs::write(path, content)
+    std::fs::write(path, content)?;
+    std::fs::set_permissions(path, std::fs::metadata(mode_from)?.permissions())
+}
+
+/// `err: cause: cause`, the same shape anyhow prints with `{:#}`.
+fn error_chain(err: &dyn std::error::Error) -> String {
+    let mut out = err.to_string();
+    let mut cur = err.source();
+    while let Some(c) = cur {
+        out.push_str(": ");
+        out.push_str(&c.to_string());
+        cur = c.source();
+    }
+    out
 }
 
 fn load_rules(custom: Option<&Path>) -> Result<RuleSet> {
diff --git a/src/fixer.rs b/src/fixer.rs
index 346dec8..04b0bda 100644
--- a/src/fixer.rs
+++ b/src/fixer.rs
@@ -82,23 +82,27 @@ impl Fixer {
             v.sort_by_key(|m| std::cmp::Reverse(m.column));
         }
 
-        let mut out_lines: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
         let mut outcome = FixOutcome::default();
-        let lines: Vec<&str> = text.lines().collect();
-        for (idx, line) in lines.iter().enumerate() {
+        let mut content = String::with_capacity(text.len());
+        // Each line keeps its own terminator (LF, CRLF or none on the last
+        // line), so bytes a fix did not touch are written back unchanged.
+        for (idx, raw) in text.split_inclusive('\n').enumerate() {
             let lineno = idx + 1;
+            let body = raw.strip_suffix('\n').unwrap_or(raw);
+            let body = body.strip_suffix('\r').unwrap_or(body);
+            let terminator = &raw[body.len()..];
             if let Some(line_matches) = by_line.get(&lineno) {
-                let (fixed, fixes, unfixed) = self.fix_line(line, line_matches);
+                let (fixed, fixes, unfixed) = self.fix_line(body, line_matches);
                 outcome.fixed_count += fixes.len();
                 outcome.unfixed_count += unfixed;
                 outcome.fixes.extend(fixes);
-                out_lines.push(fixed);
+                content.push_str(&fixed);
             } else {
-                out_lines.push((*line).to_string());
+                content.push_str(body);
             }
+            content.push_str(terminator);
         }
-        outcome.content = out_lines.join("\n");
-        outcome.content.push('\n');
+        outcome.content = content;
         outcome
     }
 
@@ -483,4 +487,32 @@ mod tests {
         let err = validate_bash_syntax("if then\n").unwrap_err();
         assert!(!err.is_empty(), "expected non-empty error from bash -n");
     }
+
+    /// Only the fixed line may change. Line endings, a missing final newline
+    /// and an empty file all come back byte-for-byte.
+    #[test]
+    fn fix_text_preserves_bytes_it_did_not_fix() {
+        let cases: [(&str, &str, usize); 7] = [
+            ("", "", 0),
+            ("\n", "\n", 0),
+            ("echo hi", "echo hi", 0),
+            ("echo hi\r\necho there\r\n", "echo hi\r\necho there\r\n", 0),
+            (
+                "echo a\r\ngrep -P '\\d+' f\r\necho b\r\n",
+                "echo a\r\ngrep -E '[0-9]+' f\r\necho b\r\n",
+                1,
+            ),
+            ("grep -P '\\d+' f", "grep -E '[0-9]+' f", 1),
+            (
+                "echo a\ngrep -P '\\d+' f\r\necho b",
+                "echo a\ngrep -E '[0-9]+' f\r\necho b",
+                1,
+            ),
+        ];
+        for (input, want, fixed) in cases {
+            let out = run_fix(input);
+            assert_eq!(out.content, want, "input {input:?}");
+            assert_eq!(out.fixed_count, fixed, "input {input:?}");
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/output.rs b/src/output.rs
index 084d57e..b081fd5 100644
--- a/src/output.rs
+++ b/src/output.rs
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ impl<'a, W: Write> Formatter<'a, W> {
                 };
                 write!(self.w, "  ")?;
                 self.write_styled(gray(), &format!("{}", m.line))?;
-                write!(self.w, ":{}:{}: ", m.line, m.column)?;
+                write!(self.w, ":{}: ", m.column)?;
                 self.write_styled(severity_style(severity), severity_str)?;
                 writeln!(self.w, " [{}]", m.rule_id)?;
                 if let Some(r) = rule {
diff --git a/src/scanner.rs b/src/scanner.rs
index f2f2c30..d050255 100644
--- a/src/scanner.rs
+++ b/src/scanner.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 //  Copyright: (c) 2025-2026 HYPERI PTY LIMITED
 
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
-use std::path::Path;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
 use regex::Regex;
@@ -183,18 +183,33 @@ impl Scanner {
         out
     }
 
-    pub fn scan_files<'a>(
-        &self,
-        paths: impl IntoIterator<Item = &'a Path>,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<MatchHit>, ScanError> {
-        let mut all = Vec::new();
+    /// Scan every path, keeping the findings from the files that could be
+    /// read. A file that cannot be read (missing, a directory, not UTF-8) is
+    /// recorded in `failures` instead of discarding the other files' results.
+    pub fn scan_files<'a>(&self, paths: impl IntoIterator<Item = &'a Path>) -> ScanReport {
+        let mut report = ScanReport::default();
         for p in paths {
-            all.extend(self.scan_file(p)?);
+            match self.scan_file(p) {
+                Ok(hits) => {
+                    report.matches.extend(hits);
+                    report.readable.push(p.to_path_buf());
+                }
+                Err(e) => report.failures.push(e),
+            }
         }
-        Ok(all)
+        report
     }
 }
 
+/// Result of scanning several files: findings, the files that were read, and
+/// the files that could not be.
+#[derive(Debug, Default)]
+pub struct ScanReport {
+    pub matches: Vec<MatchHit>,
+    pub readable: Vec<PathBuf>,
+    pub failures: Vec<ScanError>,
+}
+
 /// Filter matches to those at or above `min`. The Go implementation uses
 /// match.Rule.Severity directly; here we look the rule up by id from the
 /// RuleSet to avoid stuffing a borrowed reference into MatchHit.
diff --git a/tests/cli_check.rs b/tests/cli_check.rs
index d6a4bf0..0c554a5 100644
--- a/tests/cli_check.rs
+++ b/tests/cli_check.rs
@@ -240,3 +240,15 @@ fn version_short_flag_matches_the_long_flag() {
         stdout_of(macbash().arg("--version"))
     );
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn text_output_prefix_is_line_then_column_once() {
+    let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+    write_file(&dir, "probe.sh", "#!/usr/bin/env bash\necho -e \"hi\"\n");
+    macbash()
+        .current_dir(dir.path())
+        .arg("probe.sh")
+        .assert()
+        .code(0)
+        .stdout(predicate::str::is_match(r"(?m)^  2:\d+: (ERROR|WARNING|INFO) ").unwrap());
+}
diff --git a/tests/cli_errors.rs b/tests/cli_errors.rs
index d869952..eba4928 100644
--- a/tests/cli_errors.rs
+++ b/tests/cli_errors.rs
@@ -176,3 +176,31 @@ fn help_lists_the_output_modes_and_exits_zero() {
         .stdout(predicate::str::contains("-o, --output"))
         .stdout(predicate::str::contains("Exit Codes:"));
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn unreadable_file_does_not_hide_the_other_files_results() {
+    let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+    let bad = dir.path().join("latin1.sh");
+    std::fs::write(&bad, b"echo caf\xe9\n").unwrap();
+    macbash()
+        .arg(&bad)
+        .arg(fixture("sample-linux.sh"))
+        .assert()
+        .code(1)
+        .stderr(predicate::str::contains("Error: reading"))
+        .stderr(predicate::str::contains("latin1.sh"))
+        .stdout(predicate::str::contains("sed-inplace-no-backup"));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn only_unreadable_files_abort_the_run() {
+    let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+    let bad = dir.path().join("latin1.sh");
+    std::fs::write(&bad, b"echo caf\xe9\n").unwrap();
+    macbash()
+        .arg(&bad)
+        .assert()
+        .code(1)
+        .stderr(predicate::str::contains("Error: scanning files: reading"))
+        .stdout(predicate::str::is_empty());
+}
diff --git a/tests/cli_fix.rs b/tests/cli_fix.rs
index 13dace3..0a7da94 100644
--- a/tests/cli_fix.rs
+++ b/tests/cli_fix.rs
@@ -216,3 +216,37 @@ fn severity_filter_narrows_what_fix_mode_touches() {
         "--severity info should fix at least as much as --severity error"
     );
 }
+
+#[cfg(unix)]
+#[test]
+fn output_file_keeps_the_input_permissions() {
+    use std::os::unix::fs::PermissionsExt;
+    let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+    let script = copy_fixture(&dir, "sample-linux.sh");
+    std::fs::set_permissions(&script, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o755)).unwrap();
+    let out = dir.path().join("fixed").join("out.sh");
+
+    macbash().arg("-o").arg(&out).arg(&script).assert().code(1);
+
+    let mode = std::fs::metadata(&out).unwrap().permissions().mode() & 0o777;
+    assert_eq!(mode, 0o755, "-o must keep the executable bit");
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn write_mode_leaves_untouched_bytes_alone() {
+    let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+    for (name, body) in [
+        ("crlf.sh", "#!/usr/bin/env bash\r\necho hi\r\n"),
+        ("no-newline.sh", "#!/usr/bin/env bash\necho hi"),
+        ("empty.sh", ""),
+    ] {
+        let script = write_file(&dir, name, body);
+        macbash()
+            .arg("-w")
+            .arg(&script)
+            .assert()
+            .code(0)
+            .stdout(predicate::str::contains("(0 fixes applied, 0 unfixable)"));
+        assert_eq!(std::fs::read_to_string(&script).unwrap(), body, "{name}");
+    }
+}