Re: inverting a list

[ichi@ihug.co.nz]

Matthew Stapleton wrote:
> 
> Can I use linux text utilities to invert the lines of 
> a text file?  Say that the lines of the file are 50.  
> (1,2, ...50)  How can I change the order the of lines 
> so that line 1 is now line 50?

Here's one off the top of my head.  I'm sure 
that somebody can come up with a better one.
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#!/bin/bash
i=`cat $1|wc -l`
until [ $i = 0 ]
do head -n $i $1|tail -n 1
let i=i-1
done
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Cheers,
Steven

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