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

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:50:18 -0600

On 08/01/2012 03:37 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Patch:
> 
>>>From 3c1b7d442dc6161e3c88703c9acc3f768f9ba689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:35:38 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add tip on reversing a file byte-by-byte
> 
> * doc/coreutils.texi: Note how to use tac to reverse a file
> byte-by-byte.
> ---
>  doc/coreutils.texi |    6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
> index 516ec73..66b0838 100644
> --- a/doc/coreutils.texi
> +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
> @@ -1625,6 +1625,12 @@ Use @var{separator} as the record separator,
> instead of newline.
> 
>  @end table
> 
> +To reverse a file byte by byte, use:
> +
> +@example
> +tac -r -s '.\| ' @var{file}

Cool tip.  But not quite accurate - you need a literal newline instead
of a space on the other side of that regex alternation.

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