Reversing a file?

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <MONTNARO.89Oct2224215 at sprite.crd.ge.com>, montnaro at sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes:
> Does somebody have an elegant shell script for reversing the lines of a
> file? I've come up with the following short one:

How about the following pipeline:

grep -n "\$" t.c | sort -rn | sed "s/^[0-9]*://"

what this does is as follows:

	grep 	- get all lines of the file and number them
	sort	- key is numeric and sort in reverse order
	sed	- remove line numbers added by grep

Good luck.

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