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From: karl@MorningStar.Com (Karl Fox)
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Subject: Re: Backwards cat
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Date: 15 Dec 89 19:35:04 GMT
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In-reply-to: odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU's message of 15 Dec 89 08:12:20 GMT

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 this:

    #!/bin/sh
    grep -n "^" $* | sort -rn -t: | cut -d: -f2-
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Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies               karl@MorningStar.COM