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Is there a unix command to reverse the lines in a file?

Asked by friedchuckles (8points) August 19th, 2008

Not the characters on a line but the lines themselves.

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tac

tac (cat spelled backwards) works like cat, but reverse the order of the lines (last line is written out first).

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