Technical Notes

Manpages - tac.1

NAME

tac - concatenate and print files in reverse

SYNOPSIS

tac [/OPTION/]… [/FILE/]…

DESCRIPTION

Write each FILE to standard output, last line first.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-b, –before
attach the separator before instead of after
-r, –regex
interpret the separator as a regular expression
-s, *–separator*=/STRING/
use STRING as the separator instead of newline
–help
display this help and exit
–version
output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Jay Lepreau and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

SEE ALSO

*cat*(1), *rev*(1)

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