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September 2, 2012 15:59
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Reverse a text file's lines - the first line becoming the last
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| cat -n FILE | sort -nr | cut -c 8- > NEWFILE |
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Reverses FILE's content, making the last line to become the first. Each line's content is not modified, just the line's position.
Tweek the cut -c X to get proper results on different OSs.
This script is tested on MacOS X and with files with less than 100 lines