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From: kyle@UUNET.UU.NET (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.
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Date: 15 Feb 91 19:17:16 GMT
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After seeing a couple of programs in Perl and Icon to do this, I
feel compelled to post a shell pipeline solution to this problem.

   cat -n | sort -rn | sed 's/ *[0-9]*.//'

For System V folks whose cat(1) doesn't have -n, just use awk:

   awk '{ printf "%10d\t%s\n", NR, $0 }' | sort -rn | sed 's/ *[0-9]*.//'