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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sorting and reversing lines of a file
Message-ID: <9530@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Jan 89 05:17:49 GMT
References: <9056@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <9510@smoke.BRL.MIL> <899@auspex.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <899@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>...the "rev" on my Sun, which is probably the one from 4BSD, reverses
>the *characters* in each *line* of the file, but doesn't reverse the
>lines themselves.

Oops, sorry -- I should have checked before posting.
Maybe "rev" combined with a "sideways" utility ... :-)

Anyway, the pr|sort|cut approach I suggested should suffice.