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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: Backwards cat
Message-ID: <1989Dec15.195258.13668@twwells.com>
Date: 15 Dec 89 19:52:58 GMT
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In article <6488@lindy.Stanford.EDU> odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) writes:
: I am looking for a program that will cat a file backwards.  Not with all the
: letters reversed but one that prints the last line, then the second to last
: line, 3 from the last line, etc.)  If it doesn't exist then I will write my
: own but I thought I'd ask first.

Try: nl | sort -nr | cut (you figure the arguments). I would not
be surprised to find that this is as fast as a "tailored" program.
(Why? Because the disk access pattern of the sort *might* be
better than that of a file reverser.)

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