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Re: reversing the order in which lines appear
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: reversing the order in which lines appear |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:59:03 +0000 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
Francky Leyn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm seeking for some way to revert the order of lines. The first line
> read thus must get out last and the last read must be output first.
>
> Although it's easy to write a program for it, I'm wondering if this
> is not possible with the UNIX toolbox. Any ideas?
>
> I first tought of something like "cat -r", where the r stand for reverse.
> Is this a good suggestion, or a bad one?
I bet you'll laugh :)
`tac` is the command you want.
In general this sort of question is well answered by `apropos reverse`
thanks,
Pádraig.