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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.025903.5850@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 26 Feb 91 02:59:03 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.164342.4552@midway.uchicago.edu> <3*-&S|^@rpi.edu> <2166@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: alt.sources.d
Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast)
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As quoted from <2166@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> by mario@cs.man.ac.uk (Mario Wolczko):
+---------------
| > 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
+---------------

I don't understand what's wrong with

	nl | sort -nr | cut -f2-

I use this about twice a month.  Scripts?  We don't need no steenking scripts!

++Brandon
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