Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!powdermilk.berkeley.edu!vojta From: vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines. Message-ID: <1991Feb27.010612.25618@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 27 Feb 91 01:06:12 GMT References: <3*-&S|^@rpi.edu> <2166@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <1991Feb26.025903.5850@NCoast.ORG> Sender: Paul Vojta Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Lines: 13 In article <1991Feb26.025903.5850@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: > >I don't understand what's wrong with > > nl | sort -nr | cut -f2- What's wrong with tail -r Or is that too simple? --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu