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From: lorensen@dwaskill.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET (Bill Lorensen)
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Subject: Re: sorting and reversing lines of a file
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Date: 30 Jan 89 12:58:15 GMT
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In-reply-to: leo@philmds.UUCP's message of 27 Jan 89 12:24:22 GMT

How about:
	grep -n . file | sort -r | sed -e 's/^.*://'

Of course, as leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) said:
	tail -r file
does the trick nicely.
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