shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.

[Mario Wolczko]

In article <1991Feb19.132703.21495 at newcastle.ac.uk>, A.C.G.Saunders at newcastle.ac.uk (Aidan Saunders) writes:
> 
> I missed the start of this thread, but if the subject line is still
> relevant (:-)), how about using tail -r
> 
> ie:
>  tail -r filename
> 
> or if it needs to be on the end of a pipe:
> 
>  ... | tail -r
> 
> Works OK in SunOS 4.1

Restriction: the maximum buffer size is 32Kb.  
Try tail -r file|tail -r|cmp - file on a long file.

Mario

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