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From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Backwards cat
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Date: 15 Dec 89 19:16:29 GMT
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>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.

The unix tail(1) command will do it.