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From: chapin@cbnewsc.att.com ( Tom Chapin )
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.163813.9703@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 16:38:13 GMT
References: <2166@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <1991Feb26.025903.5850@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: Hickory Ridge - Lisle, IL
Lines: 16

Brandon S. Allbery writes:
>I don't understand what's wrong with
>	nl | sort -nr | cut -f2-

NL doesn't automatically number blank lines, so a more bulletproof
version would be:

	nl -ba | sort +0nr -1 | cut -f2-

or one might even try:

	nl -ba | sort +0nr -1 | newform -l1 -b7


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     tom chapin                att!hrccb!tjc         tjc@hrccb.att.com