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Subject: Re: Backwards cat
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Date: 16 Dec 89 00:05:06 GMT
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From article <6488@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, by odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose):
> 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.

...and the fourth answer...

TAIL(1)                  USER COMMANDS                    TAIL(1)

NAME
     tail - display the last part of a file

SYNOPSIS
     tail +|-number [ lbc ] [ fr ] [ filename ]

OPTIONS
     r    Copy lines from the end of the file in  reverse  order.
          The  default  for  r  is  to  print  the entire file in
          reverse order.
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