[PLUG] Sorting Text File By Date [SOLVED]

Michael Rasmussen michael at jamhome.us
Thu Jan 26 02:08:31 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 02:53:00PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Galen Seitz wrote:
> 
> > If all you need to do is reverse the order of the lines, then the tac
> > command is what you need.
> 
>    Thanks, Galen! When I searched with apropos I did not see that tac is cat
> spelled backwards. Clever ... and does the job.

And if for some reason tac isn't available 
    perl -e 'print reverse <>;' FILE

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