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From: net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.
Message-ID: <2763@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 27 Feb 91 15:28:07 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.025903.5850@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb27.010612.25618@agate.berkeley.edu> <19074@rpp386.cactus.org>
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <19074@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
> % tail -r /etc/passwd
> usage: tail [+|-[n][lbc][f]] [file]
> 
> [..] Watch out for those non-standard features.

Considering that the `tail' command under vanilla BSD (at least 4.2 and
4.3 BSD) has this `feature' I wouldn't call it non-standard.  After all,
`tail' is a BSD command.

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