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From: henseler@uniol.UUCP (Herwig Henseler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Reversing a file?
Message-ID: <891@uniol.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 89 11:17:54 GMT
References: <MONTNARO.89Oct2224215@sprite.crd.ge.com>
Organization: University of Oldenburg, W-Germany
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montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes:
> Does somebody have an elegant shell script for reversing the lines of a
> file?

The solution in perl:

@file = <>;
$i = $#file + 1;
print $file[$i]  while $i--;

	bye, Herwig
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