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tac (1)

Name

tac - concatenate and print files in reverse

Synopsis

tac [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Description




User Commands                                              TAC(1)



NAME
     tac - concatenate and print files in reverse

SYNOPSIS
     tac [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
     Write  each  FILE to standard output, last line first.  With
     no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

     Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for  short
     options too.

     -b, --before
          attach the separator before instead of after

     -r, --regex
          interpret the separator as a regular expression

     -s, --separator=STRING
          use STRING as the separator instead of newline

     --help
          display this help and exit

     --version
          output version information and exit

AUTHOR
     Written by Jay Lepreau and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report tac bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
     GNU  coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/core-
     utils/>
     General help using GNU  software:  <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
     elp/>
     Report   tac  translation  bugs  to  <http://translationpro-
     ject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation,  Inc.   License
     GPLv3+:      GNU      GPL     version     3     or     later
     <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
     This is free software: you are free  to  change  and  redis-
     tribute  it.   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
     by law.


ATTRIBUTES
     See  attributes(5)  for  descriptions   of   the   following
     attributes:



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User Commands                                              TAC(1)



     +---------------+--------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE   |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Availability   | file/gnu-coreutils |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted        |
     +---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
     The  full  documentation  for tac is maintained as a Texinfo
     manual.  If the info and tac programs are properly installed
     at your site, the command

          info coreutils 'tac invocation'

     should give you access to the complete manual.



NOTES
     This   software   was   built   from   source  available  at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The   original
     community       source       was       downloaded       from
     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz

     Further information about this software can be found on  the
     open  source  community  website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
     ware/coreutils/.




























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