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

From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:14:35 +0000

On 2 August 2012 15:03, Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 2 August 2012 15:00, Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Eric Blake <[email-masked]> writes:
> >
> >> On 08/02/2012 07:18 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
> [blah blah blah]
>
> All this just because there's no standard interface in coreutils (or
> indeed other GNU programs) to control the regexp engine, so you can
> make "." match any character. LOL.
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Given how long it took how many experts to come up with a valid
incantation, it seems to me it *is* a useful documentation example. So can
we have an agreed version substituted into my patch and committed, please?

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