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From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Backwards cat
Summary: Not here...
Message-ID: <175@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 89 15:30:54 GMT
References: <6488@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <3324@hub.UUCP>
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Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska
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In article <3324@hub.UUCP>, 6600pete@hub.UUCP writes:
> 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)
> 

Hmmm... at this site, not quite:

tail -r data
usage: tail [+/-[n][lbc][f]] [file]

man tail
man: tail not found

ah, well.... I don't have to reverse files very often:-)

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