GNU bug report logs - #7707
tac prints file lines in order when given a separator

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Tim Blair <trblair <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

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From: Tim Blair <trblair <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: tac prints file lines in order when given a separator
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:30:44 -0500

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I've realized that the 'bug' is in my reading of the man page, not the
implementation, my bad.

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Tim Blair <trblair <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> [tim]$ /usr/bin/tac test.txt
> six
> five
> four
> three
> two
> one
> [tim]$ /usr/bin/tac --separator=blah test.txt
> one
> two
> three
> four
> five
> six
>
> The output of the first command makes sense, but I think that the second
> run should print in the reverse order (and should have the separator,
> although I could be misreading the man page)
>
> Tim
>

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Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:46:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 7707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Tim Blair <trblair <at> gmail.com> Request was from Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:46:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:24:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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