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From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: How to print back-to-front
Message-ID: <269@heurikon.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Aug-84 03:33:32 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 25 03:33:32 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Aug-84 06:33:56 EDT
Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI
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What's a good (and fast) way to print an ACSII
file from the back to the front?  I.e., I'm
looking for a command that outputs the *last*
line of a file first and the *first* line last.

A loop with 'head -$nn file | tail -1' is too
slow and messy.

Thanks in advance.
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