Re: reading from file bottom up

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Author: Nathan Aubrey
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To: PLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: reading from file bottom up
On Thursday 27 December 2007 17:25:24 der.hans wrote:
> 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



tac .
I love the ingenious designs of *nix.
That is great. Thanks hans.

nathan
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