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From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: re: Perl script to reverse the order of lines.
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Date: 15 Feb 91 16:29:10 GMT
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|> The included script reversing the order of lines in a file.  Unlike
|> 'rev' which reverses the characters in each line, 'reverse' will
|> reverse the order of the lines.  Think of it as reversal in the other
|> dimension!  The usage is "reverse [ file ... ]"
	The BSD utilities include the "tac" program ("cat" in reverse :-) so
that might be a better name for it. (I'm adding it to my perl-shell
collection - it'll look for a perl script to do almost any command, only
exec'ing a real command as a last resort... It's nice having a "truly"
portable environment :-)
				_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
				MIT Student Information Processing Board
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Perl is the Yiddish of computer languages...