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From: jhc@aber-cs.UUCP (James H. Cox)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: reversing lines in a file
Message-ID: <196@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 12:49:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: aber-cs.196
Posted: Mon Sep 16 12:49:30 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 03:48:57 EDT
References: <2140@ukma.UUCP>
Reply-To: jhc@aber-cs.UUCP (James H. Cox)
Organization: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
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Keywords: tail -r
Xpath: icdoc ivax

In article <2140@ukma.UUCP> slg@ukma.UUCP (Sean Gilley) writes:
>Uh.. folks, in our flavor UN*X, (4.2) ``tail'' has a -r option
>that does just that.  Don't people _like_ tail? :-)
>
>						Sean.
I think tail is a wonderful command, but its not much use for reversing
lines in a file because it gives up after a few lines -- you only get
the first screenful then tail stops.
>
>
>p.s.  I think it's time this discusion ended . . . or at least got moved
>      to net.unix.  These really aren't sources, and I appologise to
>      everyone out there for posting here . . . but this is where the
>      discussion is.
>
Consider it moved; surely a discussion ends when people run out of things
to say. {:-)

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