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From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: reversing lines in a file
Message-ID: <695@adobe.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 01:17:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: adobe.695
Posted: Fri Sep 27 01:17:30 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 08:47:15 EDT
References: <2140@ukma.UUCP> <556@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Organization: Adobe Systems, Palo Alto
Lines: 7
Keywords: tail -r
Summary: 


The problem is that tail(1) keeps the lines in a buffer.  However big
the buffer is is the limit to how far you can read the file backwards.
You will note that tail can take an argument, too, but it will never
really read further back than about 300 lines or so...

Glenn


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