shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.

John F Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Wed Feb 27 23:44:10 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb27.010612.25618 at agate.berkeley.edu> vojta at powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes:
>What's wrong with
>
>	tail -r

% tail -r /etc/passwd
usage: tail [+|-[n][lbc][f]] [file]

>Or is that too simple?

Yup.  Watch out for those non-standard features.
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