Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: Printing a file backwards Message-ID: <12600027@uiucdcs> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 22:58:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.12600027 Posted: Wed Oct 23 22:58:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 03:57:31 EDT References: <1213@hpda.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:hpda.UUCP:-121300:uiucdcs:12600027:000:543 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Oct 23 21:58:00 1985 > My feed's been unreliable recently, so I hope I'm not too untimely wih this > followup...In keeping with the UN*X philosophy of using big complicated tools > to solve small, inconsequential problems (:->), I suggest that you do the > following to reverse lines in a file: > > 1) Edit the file using `vi'; > > (Complicated sequence of instructions) It's a lot easier to type ":g/^/.m0". Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "There are good guys and there are bad guys. The job of the good guys is to kill the bad guys."