reversing lines in a file

[James H. Cox]

In article <2140 at ukma.UUCP> slg at ukma.UUCP (Sean Gilley) writes:
>Uh.. folks, in our flavor UN*X, (4.2) ``tail'' has a -r option
>that does just that.  Don't people _like_ tail? :-)
>
>						Sean.
I think tail is a wonderful command, but its not much use for reversing
lines in a file because it gives up after a few lines -- you only get
the first screenful then tail stops.
>
>
>p.s.  I think it's time this discusion ended . . . or at least got moved
>      to net.unix.  These really aren't sources, and I appologise to
>      everyone out there for posting here . . . but this is where the
>      discussion is.
>
Consider it moved; surely a discussion ends when people run out of things
to say. {:-)

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