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From: mario@cs.man.ac.uk (Mario Wolczko)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.
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Date: 27 Feb 91 12:16:12 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.164342.4552@midway.uchicago.edu> <9102151917.AA04419@wendy-fate.UU.NET> <1991Feb19.132703.21495@newcastle.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Feb19.132703.21495@newcastle.ac.uk>, A.C.G.Saunders@newcastle.ac.uk (Aidan Saunders) writes:
> 
> I missed the start of this thread, but if the subject line is still
> relevant (:-)), how about using tail -r
> 
> ie:
>  tail -r filename
> 
> or if it needs to be on the end of a pipe:
> 
>  ... | tail -r
> 
> Works OK in SunOS 4.1

Restriction: the maximum buffer size is 32Kb.  
Try tail -r file|tail -r|cmp - file on a long file.

Mario

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