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From: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Reversing a file?
Message-ID: <298@quad.uucp>
Date: 3 Oct 89 21:01:29 GMT
References: <MONTNARO.89Oct2224215@sprite.crd.ge.com> <1989Oct3.041122.28028@ctr.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Organization: Quadric Systems, Richfield MN
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In article <1989Oct3.041122.28028@ctr.columbia.edu> seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) writes:
:In article <MONTNARO.89Oct2224215@sprite.crd.ge.com> <montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com> (Skip Montanaro) writes:
:>Does somebody have an elegant shell script for reversing the lines of a
:>file?
:
: tail -r

On what system?  Tail doesn't have an -r switch on any of the Sys V
machines I have access to.  Besides, based on the default behavior
of tail, this would only affect the last ten lines.  (of course, the
mythical "-r" flag could alter that behavior, I guess)

>Anything else you want?

How about something everyone can make use of?

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