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zakhooi
 PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:21 am   

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Hi,

I'm looking for a script that does the following to a text file:

for example, my textfile contains:

root> cat test.txt
line1
line2
line3

I need a script that converts it to:

root> cat test-new.txt
line3
line2
line1

I know there must be an easyway but I can't figure out.

You help is appreciated

Thanks in advance
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myownshadow
 PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:25 pm   
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Code:
cat text.txt | sort -r


thats all
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zakhooi
 PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:06 pm   

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That's kinda simple.
I've been thinking too complicated about this.

thanks
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Daenyth
 PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:39 am   

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The problem with that is that sort will do exactly what it says -- sort the lines.

Code:
< inputfile > outputfile perl -e '
my @input;
while (<>) { push @input, $_ }
print foreach (reverse @input);'
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jeo
 PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:08 pm   
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There is a simple and elegant solution, and I can't believe nobody's beaten me to posting it!

The mighty "tac"!

Code:
$ for i in `seq 1 3`; do echo "line $i" >> test.txt; done

$ cat test.txt
line 1
line 2
line 3

$ tac test.txt
line 3
line 2
line 1


Hope this helps!
-Jeo
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jeo
 PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:14 pm   
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There's also this little snippet from the "Handy one liners for awk" if you like that sort of thing :)

Code:
# reverse order of lines (emulates "tac")
awk '{a[i++]=$0} END {for (j=i-1; j>=0;) print a[j--] }' file*
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Daenyth
 PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:05 am   

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Ohh, I forgot about tac. Nice one!
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