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TAC

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report tac translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 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.