Subject: bug#12115: Please add tip about using tac to reverse a file byte-by-byte

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:18:53 +0200

"Voelker, Bernhard" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Jim Meyering wrote (Thursday, August 02, 2012 2:08 PM):
>
>> You need the double quotes around $nl with bash,

Or any other POSIX shell.

> For bash, one solution is:
>
> 	$ printf '\na\nb'|tac -rs '.\|'$(printf "\n")

No, command substitution strips trailing newlines.

Andreas.

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