sorting and reversing lines of a file

[Steve Mawer]

In article <2585 at pegasus.ATT.COM> hansen at pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen) writes:
>    WARNING
>	Command formats such as
>
>		tac file1 file2 >file1
>
>	will cause the original data in file1 to be lost, therefore, take
>	care when using shell special characters.
>
>    SEE ALSO
>	cat(1).

Note also that formats such as 

	   cat file1 file2 > file2

will cause your disk to become *very* full (as well as losing the original
contents of file2).

I can't speak for tac, since it won't do a simple first-to-last read of the
files.

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