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Subject: [BUG] cg-mkpatch uses non-portable "tac" command
Date: 21 Nov 2005 08:10:08 -0800
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cg-mkpatch uses "tac" to reverse some lines.  This is not a POSIX command.

Since you already presume Perl, you can replace the use of tac with:

        | perl -e 'print reverse <>' |

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