On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 02:24:18AM -0400, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

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> The problem is that tac doesn't exist on my OS X system.  I do appear to 
> have a rev command which does the same thing.  Simply posting a patch that 
> does 472s/tac/rev/ would fix the problem on my system, but the fact that 
> this is an issue raises the question of the relative portability of the 
> two commands.  I don't think we have a declared dependancy on GNU's 
> coreutils, which is where Debian lists tac as coming from.

I know the list will be shocked to hear that Solaris has neither.

An easy perl replacement is:

  perl -e 'print reverse <>'

which should work fine for small-ish input (since it puts the whole
thing in memory).

-Peff
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