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I'd like to reverse the order of lines in a text file (or stdin), preserving the contents of each line.
So, i.e., starting with:
foo bar baz I'd like to end up with
baz bar foo Is there a standard UNIX commandline utility for this?
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command! -bar -range=% Reverse <line1>,<line2>g/^/m0|nohl " REVERSE line ordering, and move those lines to the top of the file.
the -r flag is an option of the sort command which sorts the input file in reverse order i.e. descending order by default.
Also worth mentioning: tac (the, ahem, reverse of cat). Part of coreutils.
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