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From: mario@cs.man.ac.uk (Mario Wolczko)
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Subject: Re: shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.
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Date: 20 Feb 91 21:17:34 GMT
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> In <9102151917.AA04419@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@UUNET.UU.NET (Kyle Jones):
> 
>    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.
> 

Pass\'e solution, man.  Try this:
	ed - file <<\x
	g/^/m0
	w
	q
	x

Haven't you ever played "quiz function ed-command"? :-)

Mario Wolczko

PS Before anyone complains it's not a pipeline:
(cat >/tmp/pp$$ ; ed - /tmp/pp$$ <<\x ; cat /tmp/pp$$ ; rm /tmp/pp$$)
g/^/m0
w
q
x

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