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From: fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re: sorting and reversing lines of a file
Message-ID: <783@sering.cwi.nl>
Date: 29 Jan 89 22:51:17 GMT
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> 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
>>    but leave the lines themselves intact.
you might consider:
	#! /bin/sh
	exec cat "$@" | exec tail -r
I use this all the time to reverse my .newsrc as I read nearly all
groups and would never see the last groups if I didn't start from
the end once in a while.
fmr@cwi.nl
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