[olug] Unix Tip: ANOTHER FILE REVERSAL

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ANOTHER FILE REVERSAL

For those that don't have 
the tac command, to reverse 
a file in UNIX, you could use:

cat <file-name> | awk '{ line[NR] = $0;} END
{for(i=NR;i>1;i--) print line[i] }'


This tip generously supported by: chandramohan_k at infy.com



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