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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.
Message-ID: <19074@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 27 Feb 91 12:44:10 GMT
References: <3*-&S|^@rpi.edu> <2166@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <1991Feb26.025903.5850@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb27.010612.25618@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <1991Feb27.010612.25618@agate.berkeley.edu> vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes:
>What's wrong with
>
>	tail -r

% tail -r /etc/passwd
usage: tail [+|-[n][lbc][f]] [file]

>Or is that too simple?

Yup.  Watch out for those non-standard features.
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