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From: bush%ecs.oxford.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Reversing a file?
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Date: 6 Oct 89 17:41:48 GMT
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> Does somebody have an elegant shell script for reversing the lines of a
> file? I've come up with the following short one:

For all perl fans:

while (<>)
{
    $line{$.} = $_;
}

for ($i = $.; $i > 0; $i--)
{
    print $line{$i};
}

Mark Bush                      bush%uk.ac.oxford.prg@ac.uk
Teaching Support Programmer    bush%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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