Reversing a file?

[Jay A. Konigsberg]

In article <MONTNARO.89Oct2224215 at sprite.crd.ge.com> <montanaro at crdgw1.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:

><Recursive code deleted>

>Ready?
>			   **  tail -r  **

>Anything else you want?

This is a nice, clean way to do it, though " tail " had (has?) a
bug (feature?) relating to file size. It can't (won't) create a
file larger than 512 blocks. Depending on the size of the original
file, it could create a problem.

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