Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philmds!leo
From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sorting and reversing lines of a file
Keywords: sort reverse
Message-ID: <937@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 12:36:36 GMT
References: <9056@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <936@philmds.UUCP>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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In article <936@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (that's me) writes:
|In article <9056@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> lang@pearl.PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang) writes:
||
||I need utilities to do two things:
||(1) reverse the order of lines in a file
|
|tail -r f

If the intention was to SORT the lines reversed (this is not clear,
even from the example), this should be

sort -r f

   []
|Sorry about tail -f (8-).
Of course I meant tail -r here.

                 Leo.