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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reversing numbers in a datafile of rows and columns Post 302306896 by ghostdog74 on Tuesday 14th of April 2009 07:30:24 AM
Old 04-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by reddybs
Hi,

# tac file | awk '{print $6,$5,$4,$3,$2,$1}'

Any loopholes in the above command?
Hope this suites this situation. Smilie
should be alright if the file has exactly six fields. If the fields are variable, then might not be suitable.
 

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TAC(1)								   User Commands							    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
Report tac bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report tac translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
rev(1) 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 coreutils 'tac invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 TAC(1)
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