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tac prints file lines in order when given a separator

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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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