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From: Anw%maths.nottingham.ac.uk@UCL-CS.ARPA
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Subject: Re: reversing lines in a file
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		anw@UK.AC.Nott.Maths
	-- Andy Walker, Maths Dept, Nottingham Univ

		grep -n "" file.dat | sort -rn | sed "s/[0-9]*://"

	Possibly more in the spirit of Unix is

> reverses the lines of  file.dat. [...]
>
>	% revgrep '^' file.dat
>
>	[...] It does a grep, backwards, so
>	One way to reverse lines in a file is to use revgrep(1).


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