Reversing a file?

[Mark Bush]

> Does somebody have an elegant shell script for reversing the lines of a
> file? I've come up with the following short one:

For all perl fans:

while (<>)
{
    $line{$.} = $_;
}

for ($i = $.; $i > 0; $i--)
{
    print $line{$i};
}

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