reading from file bottom up

der.hans PLUGd at LuftHans.com
Thu Dec 27 17:25:24 MST 2007


Am 27. Dec, 2007 schwätzte Nathan Aubrey so:

> I have a text file with a list of other files in it. They are not in
> alphabetical order, and I don't want them to be. But, I need to be able to
> read the list from the bottom up. I tried catting the file through sort -r
> but that puts it in reverse alphabetical order, not just reverse order. Is
> there another way to do this?

tac - cat in reverse

ciao,

der.hans
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