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From: jak@sactoh0.UUCP (Jay A. Konigsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re: Reversing a file?
Message-ID: <1920@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 00:37:15 GMT
References: <MONTNARO.89Oct2224215@sprite.crd.ge.com> <1989Oct3.041122.28028@ctr.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: jak@sactoh0.UUCP (Jay A. Konigsberg)
Organization: SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca.
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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? I've come up with the following short one:

><Recursive code deleted>

>Ready?
>			   **  tail -r  **

>Anything else you want?

This is a nice, clean way to do it, though " tail " had (has?) a
bug (feature?) relating to file size. It can't (won't) create a
file larger than 512 blocks. Depending on the size of the original
file, it could create a problem.

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