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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reverse multiword Post 302395393 by amitranjansahu on Tuesday 16th of February 2010 01:17:39 AM
Old 02-16-2010
Here is the code

Code:
amit@softpc142108 ars $ cat rev.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter a string :: "
read str


echo $str | awk '{
for(i=length($0);i>=1;i--)
printf("%s",substr($0,i,1));
}'

amit@softpc142108 ars $

 

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TGET(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   TGET(1)

NAME
tget - get termcap values SYNOPSIS
tget [-flag id] [-num id] [-str id] [-goto col line] [[-echo] string] DESCRIPTION
Tget allows shell scripts access to the termcap(3) functions. Flags, numbers and strings can be queried from the termcap database under the entry denoted by the environment variable $TERM. OPTIONS
-flag id Set the exit status to zero if the flag id is set. All other options except -echo set the exit status to id being available or not. The last option sets the final exit code. -num id Print the value of the numeric variable id. -str id Print the value of the string variable id. -goto col line Generates instructions to go to the given column and line if the cm capability exists. -echo string Prints string. Any other argument that does not start with a dash is also printed. EXAMPLE
Try this: tget -str so 'Reverse Video' -str se ENVIRONMENT
TERM Terminal type. TERMCAP Path to the termcap database, by default /etc/termcap:/usr/etc/termcap. SEE ALSO
termcap(3). DIAGNOSTICS
Tget will fail immediately with a descriptive message if the termcap entry can't be found. AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) TGET(1)
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