shell pipeline to reverse the order of lines.

Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR allbery at NCoast.ORG
Tue Feb 26 13:59:03 AEST 1991


As quoted from <2166 at m1.cs.man.ac.uk> by mario at cs.man.ac.uk (Mario Wolczko):
+---------------
| > In <9102151917.AA04419 at wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle at UUNET.UU.NET (Kyle Jones):
| >    After seeing a couple of programs in Perl and Icon to do this, I
| >    feel compelled to post a shell pipeline solution to this problem.
| 
| Pass\'e solution, man.  Try this:
| 	ed - file <<\x
| 	g/^/m0
| 	w
| 	q
| 	x
+---------------

I don't understand what's wrong with

	nl | sort -nr | cut -f2-

I use this about twice a month.  Scripts?  We don't need no steenking scripts!

++Brandon
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