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tac

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

Report bugs to <bug-textutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for tac is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tac programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info tac

should give you access to the complete manual.